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Opener Aims To Begin Taking Orders for the BlackFly Personal eVTOL This Year
Opener, the Canadian start-up behind the BlackFly personal eVTOL aircraft, says it is on track to begin collecting orders from customers this year.
Opener's BlackFly personal eVTOL aircraft is pictured during a flight test.
Opener's BlackFly personal eVTOL aircraft, shown here during a flight test, should be available to order in 2023. (Photo: Opener)

Opener, the U.S. start-up behind the BlackFly personal eVTOL aircraft, says it is on track to begin collecting orders from customers this year—but the company isn’t making any promises or setting a firm date just yet. 

“We're feeling good about 2023,” Opener CEO Ken Karklin said last week during the Vertical Flight Society’s eVTOL Symposium in Mesa, Arizona. “But as anyone who is in charge of a large complex engineering program knows, you're always just one test report away from a three- or six-month slip. And if it involves certain hardware, it could be longer than that, but most of the risk has been burned down.”

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