Talyn Air
Winter 2020 · Acquired
Long range, battery electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US
Founded: 2019
Team size: 18
About
Talyn is making long-range electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for cargo. We get fixed-wing performance with VTOL capability by making an electric fixed wing aircraft that is caught mid-air with a custom winged drone, enabling it to take-off and land vertically.
Founders
Jamie GullFounder
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.
Evan MucaseyFounder