Ashlee VanceNYT Best Seller | Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek

The Lightest Aircraft In The World #aviation #drones #india #bangalore

2 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this short narrated segment, the speaker showcases AirBounce’s ultra‑light carbon‑fiber drones that are currently operating in the skies over Bangalore. The video highlights the company’s first‑generation delivery drones, which hover with two propellers, and its larger second‑generation models that represent a step toward lightweight passenger aircraft. The narration emphasizes AirBounce’s ambition to revolutionize aircraft construction by scaling from cheap, long‑range delivery drones to full‑size passenger planes, and notes the active R&D and manufacturing hubs supporting this development.

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Look at them. They're everywhere. What's the most you've ever done at once? 26 in the air right now. 26, and we're doing it. They're trying to make a whole new type of aircraft out of carbon fiber. Really, these guys want to revolutionize how aircraft are built. They think they can do these delivery drones and then get all the way up to passenger aircraft one day and give people nice lightweight planes. They have made their first craft. And then now they're working on their second generation, and they've got all this stuff going on in these little R&D centers and manufacturing. These are all AirBounce drones. That's their second generation right there, a bit bigger. And the first generation flying all around us. Look at that, how they hover with 2 propellers. They can go really far for cheap. We'll see.