Talyn Air
Long range, battery electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
What they do
Moving cargo over long distances quickly and efficiently is difficult where runways are unavailable or infrastructure is limited.
It builds long-range battery-electric fixed-wing cargo aircraft that can take off and land vertically by being caught mid-air with a custom winged drone system.
Cargo logistics operators and organizations that need runway-independent air transport.
Founders
Jamie graduated from Stanford University with bachelor's and master's degree in Aerospace Engineering. He then joined Scaled Composites as a design engineer where he worked on Stratolauncher early sizing and was one of 5 engineers on a 5000 lbm optionally manned aircraft. Jamie then moved to SpaceX where he was the responsible engineer on the aft thermal shield of the Falcon 9 rocket that enabled the first hypersonic reentry of an orbital rocket and reuse of the first stage.
Company timeline
- Founded2019
- YC batchWinter 2020
- StatusAcquired
- Team size18 people
- LocationLos Angeles, CA, USA
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