Here are some more details about @theaircurrent’s #eVTOL scoop for those of you who haven’t made it behind the paywall yet. Two key points: 1) This is not about safety, and 2) Yes, the FAA is serious about this. 🧵 theaircurrent.com/aircraft-devel… 2/ Basically the FAA’s approach of using new performance-based Part 23 rules to certify eVTOLs was working fine. But Part 23 has historically been for airplanes, which begged a question: would eVTOLs operate like airplanes or helicopters or something in between?

🧵: Have you heard the story of Charles “Bub” (or “Bud”) Cowart, the sailor who in May 1932 spent almost two hours dangling from a rope beneath the airship USS Akron before he was finally rescued? #AviationHistory 2/ It’s a wild story I discovered while researching my family’s history with airships. My great-great grandfather was director of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation — here he is with the father of naval aviation, Admiral Moffett, who would die in the crash of the Akron in 1933.