Tim DraperFounder and Managing Partne, Draper Associate · I back the ideas that look crazy first

🚁 Meet the Drapers: Airflight’s Flying Cranes 🚁

13 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Travis discusses Airflight's flying cranes, heavy-lift drones designed to move cargo. The company is working through regulatory hurdles to get these aircraft certified and deployed commercially, with questions around when customers will actually adopt the technology.

What's the biggest challenge? What could go wrong here? Should we do the top 10 or—
Well, I've learned to say that in entrepreneurship anything can go wrong. There haven't been a technical challenge we haven't been able to solve yet, but getting on board with the regulations and working with the industry to get everything in place, that's been one of the bigger ones because it's a little more out of our control.
Travis, I'm sitting here with some serious geek envy. I mean, we all Imagine that we're building cool things and then someone comes up with a gigantic flying drone. But has anyone bought it yet?