Wisk to Make EAA AirVenture Oshkosh Debut with Autonomous Air Taxi

Wisk Aero will make its EAA Air­Ven­ture Oshkosh 2023 air show debut this July. The com­pa­ny will have a num­ber of oppor­tu­ni­ties for show atten­dees to learn more about autonomous pas­sen­ger flight and the company’s vision of safe, every­day flight for every­one.

6th Gen­er­a­tion Air Taxi Dis­play: The company’s 6th Gen­er­a­tion air taxi — the world’s first four-pas­sen­ger, autonomous, elec­tric ver­ti­cal take­off and land­ing (eVTOL) air taxi — will be on dis­play in the Wisk chalet.

Gen­er­al Avi­a­tion Forum Ses­sion: Wisk will host a spe­cial Forum ses­sion address­ing the impact of autonomous air taxis on gen­er­al avi­a­tion, includ­ing a Q&A ses­sion for atten­dees to ask ques­tions. The Forum ses­sions will include a pan­el of gen­er­al avi­a­tion pilots that work at Wisk and will be mod­er­at­ed by Steve Thorne of FlightChops. The Forum ses­sions will take place at Forum Stage 5, on Mon­day, July 24 from 10:00–11:15am CDT.

“Many of our employ­ees are pilots and we have long dreamed of shar­ing the ground­break­ing, inno­v­a­tive work that we’re doing at Oshkosh,” said Bri­an Yutko, CEO of Wisk.

“We are excit­ed to intro­duce the Oshkosh com­mu­ni­ty to our 6th Gen­er­a­tion air taxi and to shar­ing more about how autonomous flight is going to pos­i­tive­ly change the future of avi­a­tion.”

Unlike remote­ly pilot­ed air­craft that are flown with tra­di­tion­al flight con­trols by a human pilot on the ground, Wisk’s air­craft fly them­selves while being mon­i­tored from the ground.

Each flight is mon­i­tored (not remote­ly pilot­ed) by a ground-based super­vi­sor that can inter­vene by send­ing new com­mands that the air­craft then exe­cutes autonomous­ly. This autonomous approach com­bines exist­ing automa­tion tech­nolo­gies with pro­pri­etary autonomous soft­ware and addi­tion­al capa­bil­i­ties. The result is claimed to be a tru­ly autonomous, cer­ti­fi­able sys­tem with pre­dictable, deter­min­is­tic out­comes.

In Jan­u­ary 2022, Wisk secured $450 mil­lion in fund­ing from The Boe­ing Com­pa­ny to rein­force its posi­tion as a pri­vate­ly-backed com­pa­ny and advance the progress of its sixth gen­er­a­tion eVTOL air­craft.

Wisk receives $450 mil­lion in fund­ing from The Boe­ing Com­pa­ny, sup­port­ing mar­ket plans for its autonomous eVTOL air­craft