... so long as you include California.
This is a machine developed in the Philippines and marketed from within Australia by a firm supplying patio-lights, amongst other electrical products. Reason being, these things are going to be Walmart staples one day.
Over there, you borrow a field, mow a service track and lay a little concrete and you're in business. Here in the UK, you've a risk assessment do, insurance to arrange, endless CAA exemptions to pursue, licences and training to complete, a commercial website to upload by way of endorsement and an Experimental Program to draft... at the end of which you've no choice but to pursue the sort of certification that applies to every existing type of aircraft in the UK.
No different in Europe, where as a qualified training captain I realised EASA's guidance for eVTOLs is the operating manual for airlines, with parts redacted as appropriate over a Belgian pastry and cappuccino until it's home-time at noon.
In New York, cars almost replaced carts in the space of a year. When the automobile arrived here from Germany, what did we do with it? Draft a regulation that required motorists to follow a man with a flag at walking pace, so as not to frighten the horses or small children.
