PODCAST: ZURI’s Michal Illich on why its hybrid VTOL aircraft can help unlock regional air mobility travel

Our lat­est pod­cast episode is now live! This week, we were delight­ed to be joined by Michal Illich, CEO and founder at ZURI.

In this episode, Michal talks to us about the rea­sons why he set up ZURI to devel­op a hybrid VTOL air­craft to unlock region­al air mobil­i­ty.

He talks about the lat­est design phase, which was announced at the end of 2022, and also share more details about their cur­rent roadmap — which includes some excit­ing flight tests per­formed ear­li­er this year.

While ZURI’s goal is to change the way peo­ple expe­ri­ence on-demand, door-to-door mid-range flights, Michal talks about the val­ue its air­craft can have on the future avi­a­tion mar­ket, as well as the var­i­ous dif­fer­ent use cas­es the air­craft can be con­fig­ured for — such as medievac and car­go logis­tics.

We also talk about the cost advan­tages of hybrid air­craft over con­ven­tion­al air­craft and heli­copters and Michal pro­vides an update on ZURI’s lat­est fundrais­ing round.

Click on the Play but­ton below to lis­ten to the episode, which is now avail­able on what­ev­er pod­cast plat­form you use.