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Talyn Air

Acquired

Long range, battery electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.

Winter 2020Founded 201918 peopleLos Angeles, CA, USA
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Talyn is making long-range electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for cargo. We get fixed-wing performance with VTOL capability by making an electric fixed wing aircraft that is caught mid-air with a custom winged drone, enabling it to take-off and land vertically.

Founders Β· 2

Jamie Gull
Jamie GullFounder
SpaceXStanfordπŸŽ“ Stanford University

Jamie graduated from Stanford University with bachelor's and master's degree in Aerospace Engineering. He then joined Scaled Composites as a design engineer where he worked on Stratolauncher early sizing and was one of 5 engineers on a 5000 lbm optionally manned aircraft. Jamie then moved to SpaceX where he was the responsible engineer on the aft thermal shield of the Falcon 9 rocket that enabled the first hypersonic reentry of an orbital rocket and reuse of the first stage.

Evan Mucasey
Evan MucaseyFounder
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