A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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Curt Epstein

Flying car developer Terrafugia is progressing on its mission to establish a viable roadable aircraft. The company (Booth N2009) was purchased late last year by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, and with this capital infusion has since expanded its Woburn, Massachusetts headquarters and opened a new research and development facility in the San Francisco Bay area, adding 105 new jobs in the process.

 


It is currently finishing development of a newly-enhanced prototype of its Transition, which it says will be ready for customer deliveries in 2019. “We are now ideally positioned to realize the company’s vision of creating the world’s first flying car, and are taking practical steps towards this,” noted Terrafugia CEO Chris Jaran.

 


This week at Heli-Expo 2018, the company unveiled its next generation concept, the TF-2, which carries a detachable pod that can carry either passengers or cargo.

 


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