A British success story in the making, and unusual in so far as failure-redundancy drifts from the norm in not simply having fitted eight contra-rotating motors and propellers. It does have eight motors, though how they drive the propellers is not revealed... the website as so often with eVTOLs being light on technical details.
Nonetheless it is standard practise with helicopters to drive a single rotor from a gearbox connecting to turbine engines: where as here the blades themselves are viewed as the least-likely point of failure. As a pilot and world-renowned influencer I am comfortable with that, not least because this can be glided to a safe landing in extremis.
I'm less comfortable with the £150,000 price tag, although that's wholly reasonable in view of the price inflation affecting general aviation these days.
It does beg the question of how the founder progressed the project under Starmer's regime ~ where you're more likely to get a grant as a collective staging happenings that explore the meaning of gender, and which toilet we should use ~ whose answer is the fact that a pair of angel investors stumped up the required (and substantial) cash. I recall ~ and it won't surprise anyone ~ that they are both based in the US.
Am almost tempted to do a Joe Rogan on their founder, but can't be bothered.
