Aerospace’s Hottest Market? The Future of Vertical Lift

Exciting new technologies and designs are beginning to broaden dramatically the once-limited horizons of vertical lift. Can industry break out of the mold that has shaped this sector for decades? 

Nick Lappos, Sikorsky senior technical fellow and chair of the U.S. National Academies Committee on Advanced Air Mobility, and Mike Hirschberg, executive director of the Vertical Flight Society, join Aviation Week editors for a deep dive into what’s coming – military and civil, manned and unmanned, conventional and eVTOL –and which ideas are most likely to succeed.

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