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Established Aerospace Executive Climbs Aboard To Bring Blackfly To Market
Opener, a California-based company developing aerial vehicles for consumer travel, has appointed aerospace industry veteran and innovator, Ben Diachun to the senior leadership team as president. Diachun is coming to Opener from Scaled Composites, the aerospace company that worked with the late Paul Allen to design and fly SpaceShipOne, an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft. Mr. Diachun will report to Marcus Leng, Opener founder and CEO, and inventor of BlackFly, the world’s first all-electric fixed-wing personal ultralight vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicle.
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