Overair CEO Ben Tigner remained tight-lipped about the company’s plans to bring its Butterfly eVTOL aircraft to market by 2025, during a presentation to this week’s Vertical Flight Society Forum 77 event. It has been just over three years since Uber named what was then Karem Aircraft as one of the partners in its planned Elevate urban air mobility program, but, unlike most of its publicity-hungry rivals, the company steadfastly refuses to offer any meaningful update on its all-electric aircraft.
Asked to provide more details on the Butterfly’s performance, Tigner said it will have a range of “a bit more than 100 miles,” carrying a pilot and four passengers at speeds of around 200 mph. He confirmed that Overair has flown sub-scale demonstrators of the design, which features four sets of tilting propellers. He would not say when a full-scale prototype will begin flight testing.
