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A Real Standout

Unlike most eVTOL companies that intend to commence
operations with a pilot on board, Boeing subsidiary

Wisk Aero is developing self-flying aircraft

By Arun Sivasankaran
the autonomous route. In July “

t is not just its design and be piloted, Wisk Aero has gone
the eye-catching yellow The entire flight was
I color that makes Wisk last year, the U.S-based com-
Aero’s in-development sixth pany used its fifth generation operated with the push
generation aircraft stand out aircraft, Cora, to complete what of a button.”
among the many electric vertical it claims is the world’s first public
takeoff and landing (eVTOL), demonstration flight of a fully
fixed-wing aircraft that will fly in autonomous, eVTOL fixed-wing A fully owned Boeing subsidi-
different regions within the next air taxi. “There was no pilot on ary that is headquartered in the
few years. board, no pilot controls in the San Francisco Bay Area, Wisk
While most other companies in aircraft, and no stick-and-rudder intends to start operations in the
the nascent urban air mobility- on the ground,” says Jim Tighe, U.S. before expanding to other
industry have chosen to enter Chief Technology Officer at major global markets. The com-
the market with eVTOLs that will Wisk. pany is currently in the process

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