Electric Flight Pioneer Shifts Focus To Firefighting

Graham Warwick June 13, 2023

Launched from a truck, swarming drones will autonomously map the wildfire.

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Omer Bar-Yohay has stepped down as president of AutoFlight to focus on a firefighting data startup he co-founded before joining the Chinese/European electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) company in April 2022. Bar-Yohay joined AutoFlight after stepping down as CEO of electric aircraft...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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