SkyDrive CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa takes centre stage in eVTOL Insights’ digital magazine in September

The Sep­tem­ber edi­tion of eVTOL Insights’ dig­i­tal mag­a­zine leads with an in-depth inter­view with Sky­Drive CEO Tomo­hi­ro Fukuza­wa, which explores the per­son­al jour­ney, lead­er­ship chal­lenges and com­mer­cial deci­sions behind the com­pa­ny’s devel­op­ment.

From his ear­ly career at Toy­ota to exper­i­ment­ing with flight as a week­end project, Fukuza­wa reflects on the expe­ri­ences that inspired him to build an aero­space busi­ness — and the lessons learned along the way.

The con­ver­sa­tion exam­ines how Sky­Drive has brought togeth­er dif­fer­ent engi­neer­ing cul­tures, nav­i­gat­ed dif­fi­cult design deci­sions and devel­oped a mar­ket strat­e­gy shaped by the oppor­tu­ni­ties in Japan and beyond. It also explores the role of man­u­fac­tur­ing part­ner Suzu­ki and the chal­lenge of main­tain­ing momen­tum through the demands of air­craft devel­op­ment.

For read­ers inter­est­ed in the peo­ple behind the air­craft, the fea­ture offers a can­did per­spec­tive on lead­ing a com­pa­ny through uncer­tain­ty, build­ing inter­na­tion­al teams and bal­anc­ing ambi­tion with com­mer­cial real­i­ties.

Else­where, September’s edi­tion brings togeth­er sto­ries span­ning North Amer­i­ca, Europe, Asia-Pacif­ic and the Mid­dle East.

High­lights include Heart Aerospace’s X1 flight mile­stone, BETA Tech­nolo­gies’ plans to expand man­u­fac­tur­ing and Wisk’s devel­op­ment of a ver­ti­port test­ing facil­i­ty in Cal­i­for­nia. The issue also cov­ers Ver­ti­cal Aerospace’s financ­ing com­mit­ments as it advances its cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gramme.

In Asia-Pacif­ic, read­ers can explore SkyDrive’s work with Air India and Suzu­ki to assess poten­tial med­ical logis­tics routes, along­side EHang’s pub­lic flight in Hong Kong. Our Mid­dle East cov­er­age looks at emerg­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties in Kuwait and Oman as both mar­kets devel­op their AAM ambi­tions.

The mag­a­zine also spot­lights eVTOL Insights’ Women in AAM com­mu­ni­ty and the open­ing of ear­ly bird entries for the Glob­al AAM Awards 2027.

Down­load your copy of the Sep­tem­ber edi­tion of eVTOL Insights’ dig­i­tal mag­a­zine here