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    "Aircraft Development",
    "Domhnal Slattery",
    "eVTOL",
    "Jason Mudrick",
    "Mudrick Capital",
    "Paul Stone",
    "Simon Davies",
    "Stephen Fitzpatrick",
    "Stuart Simpson",
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  "textContent": "In November 2025, Vertical Aerospace chairman Dómhnal Slattery proclaimed on the company’s third-quarter earnings call that the U.K.-based electric vertical take-off and landing developer was “within weeks” of completing a successful piloted transition flight with its prototype VX4 aircraft. Four months later, Slattery acknowledged that his declaration had been premature. “The reality is, it’s taken us longer than we anticipated,” he told analysts on Vertical’s full-year earnings call on March 24, explaining that […]\n\nThe post Vertical Aerospace’s piloted transition flight is a technical and business milestone appeared first on The Air Current.",
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