It’s been almost exactly one year since Trevor Milton, the founder of now-bankrupt electric truck startup Nikola, was pardoned by President Trump. Now the Wall Street Journal has published one of the first deep dives into Milton’s new effort: trying to build autonomous planes.
Milton and an “investment group” purchased a downtrodden aviation company called SyberJet Aircraft late last year and he has spent the time since trying to turn the company around. That involves bringing in “dozens” of former Nikola staff, soliciting possible investors from Saudi Arabia, and spending a few hundred thousand dollars on lobbying, according to the report.
Oh this sounds perfectly safe. What could possibly go wrong?
I wonder if they’ll have engines…
It’ll be like the flintstones, where they hang their feet, and power the plane by running fast enough to take off. The pilot will be Usain Bolt.
The pilot can’t be an engine.
Well not with that attitude!