Interested by urban air mobility? Don’t miss Wisk Aero on the Drone Radio Show with host Randy Goers. Wisk CEO Brian Yutko talks concerning the progress the corporate is making to develop and deploy autonomous air taxis, including the outcomes of a recent successful air taxi flight demonstration on the Long Beach Airport.
Brian Yutko is CEO of Wisk Aero, a complicated air mobility company dedicated to delivering protected, on a regular basis flight for everybody. Wisk’s self-flying, electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi will make it possible for passengers to skip the traffic and get to their destination faster. Headquartered within the Mountain View, California, with locations all over the world, Wisk is an independent company backed by The Boeing Company and Kitty Hawk Corporation. With over a decade of experience and over 1600 test flights, Wisk is shaping the longer term of each day commutes and concrete travel, safely and sustainably.
Before joining Wisk, Brian served as Vice President and Chief Engineer for Sustainability and Future Mobility at Boeing, where he led a team that leveraged company’s technical expertise in sustainability technologies in addition to emerging, advanced aerial mobility applications. He was the Chief Technologist for Boeing NeXt and sat on the Board of Directors for Wisk following its founding as a three way partnership with Boeing. Prior to his roles at Boeing, Brian was the Senior Vice President of Programs and Vice President of Research and Technology at Aurora Flight Sciences, an industry leader in aviation autonomy and rapid prototyping. Brian was a Research Engineer within the International Center for Air Transportation at MIT after earning a Ph.D. and Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. He also earned a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.
On this edition of the Drone Radio Show, Brian talks concerning the progress that Wisk Aero is making to develop and deploy autonomous air taxis, including the outcomes of a recent successful air taxi flight demonstration on the Long Beach Airport.
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