eVTOL

So although traditionally you might have heard of pilot careers and engineer careers, there are many other roles, particularly in the digital and the business and the commercial areas.

but also exploring links into military service and defence as well as the growing eVTOL and drone sectors as well all come under aviation industry sectors.

So it's very broad.

And what can learners expect from you guys as a teacher?

It is, uh, considered flying car, but it's actually what we call the aircraft carrier, the land aircraft carrier.

It's a car that carries a eVTOL inside the vehicle and can be separate automatically and be used flying for, you know, thirty minutes, uh, and then you can actually take two people, uh, with, you know, the vertically take off, and it can actually come back automatically and be loaded into vehicles.

So that actually is something I would say is very, very close to commercial reality.

The pr- the company actually already collected more than seven thousand, you know, indicative orders around the world, not just in China.

We'll cut in some, um, some footage here so people, um, people can see.

But when do you think there'll be a mass market?

Flying eVTOL business, I think it will take, uh, in my opinion, a longer adoption time.

Clearly, uh, it's heavily regulated area.

No, definitely not.

And the show that I mentioned is the eVTOL Show USA.

It's gonna be held in Santa Clara, California, which is in Silicon Valley, in November 2026.

And the presentation that I mentioned is gonna be given by Schneider Electric's Jean-Olivier Rie.

And so the presentation is Energy Infrastructure as the Rate Limiter: Delivering Megawatt-Scale Power for eVTOL Operations.

So always another challenge on the horizon, and I'm sure people will figure out how to address this one as well.

Yeah.

I love the Jetsons reference.

And what's really cool about this is it's an eVTOL, so electric vertical takeoff and landing, but it's a hybrid plane.

So it uses conventional engines as well as electric engines.

One to lift, it kind of looks like a drone, but then it'll actually fly.

I'm the editor of Rotohub International.

Today, it's a little bit different where, you know, we're talking about Well, you know, eVTOLs, is that still accurate or hybrid VTOLs? Because there seems to be a move.

And to do that, today we're joined by Brendan Robinson.

Now, Brendan Robinson, of course, is the co-founder and president of Horizon Aircraft.

I think we've taken a lot from this discussion.

We may have to have you back to talk eVTOL and Billy Bishop and where you see transportation in 20 years.

But with all of these headlines about rail and transit systems and cost overruns, I think it's been very helpful to have you break it down.

So thanks for blue-skying all this with us today, Rhys Martin.

So when we produce our magazine for our members, we are constantly looking for news from all of the disciplines.

As you know, we do everything from EVTOL to space flight in the magazine.

And most of that news does not make the final cut.

Simply the fact that we only have a few paper pages in the magazine every month.

The FAA's aircraft certification process for novel configurations has proven to be extraordinarily time consuming.

Companies building electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, the category often called EVTOL, have been working through FAA-type certification for years.

The goalposts move, the standards evolve, the timelines slip.

Regent is routing around that process by staying close to the water and staying under the jurisdiction of an agency with a different certification framework.