Tsung Xu built a world-class-range VTOL aircraft from scratch in 90 days with no prior experience. He is now building Vight, a company premised on a simple thesis: flying cars are finally possible, and affordability is the only remaining barrier between the technology and daily human use. J. Storrs Hall asked 'Where is my flying car?' in 2005. It is 2026. The question is still open.
The original essay is not a product announcement. It is a first-person technical and economic argument from a builder who was a serious writer on energy and materials before he ever touched an airframe. The argument covers why the convergence of battery energy density, autonomy software, and regulatory shifts makes this the specific moment to build, not just theorize. That case, made from inside the shop, is worth reading in full.
Vight's bet is that EVTOLs can expand the practical radius of daily life the way cars did in the 20th century, but the affordability math has to work at a mass scale, not just for early adopters. How Xu plans to close that gap is the question the essay answers directly.
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