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It is a truly monumental day for
@regentcraft
– I’m ecstatic to announce our $60M Series A!
From our earliest days, we were told this round may be the hardest money we ever raise. I wont go as far to say its “easy” to build a sub-scale, proof-of-concept demonstrator, but many
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I’m excited to announce that REGENT has taken flight! 🛫
We combined the benefits from ground effect flight, distributed electric propulsion, and hydrofoiling into a single platform: the seaglider
Which will massively improve convenience & affordability of regional travel
🧵👇
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Seagliders are the future of coastal transportation.
By the end of 2025, the 1st passengers will be hydrofoiling through harbors & flying over the open seas on a cushion of air
At a fraction of the cost of a plane ticket today.
With zero emissions.
Today, we proved it works.
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1/9 Regional transportation needs to be re-thought from the ground-up
However, we see existing efforts – eVTOLs and electric aircraft – facing massive technical and regulatory hurdles. Here’s our master plan at REGENT to unlock the future of travel
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Huge news! A $60M Series A for
@regentcraft
and a partnership with Japan Airlines (
@JAL_Official_jp
) to advance seagliders in Japan.
Great coverage by
@CNBC
here
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We build BIG boats! They happen to fly.
Onto the next chapter: humans onboard by next year!! 🌊🌊🌊
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For the first time, a seaglider has taken flight.
🛡️ Safe in harbors
🌊 Comfortable in waves
😌 Convenient for regional travel
All due to the ability to combine floating, foiling, and flying.
Why is this so revolutionary? 👇
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What an epic year!! Major contracts, key technical proof-points, all keeping REGENT on-track to commercial entry to service.
Here's what we did in 2022 🧵👇
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🇯🇵🇯🇵 JAPAN AIRLINES x REGENT 🇯🇵🇯🇵
Big news here:
@JAL_Official_jp
has just completed a strategic investment in
@REGENTcraft
.
This kicks off our formal partnership on
#seaglider
development and potential future implementation into the JAL global network
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Previous mechanical methods of distributing propulsion involved many engines or complex gearboxes. Either way they were heavy, expensive, maintenance intensive.
The maturation of electric propulsion lets us unlock the blown wing by lowering weight, cost, complexity (+emissions!)
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Stoked to be at the
@a16z
American Dynamic Summit in DC today 🇺🇸🏗
Learning from companies like
@anduriltech
,
@shieldaitech
,
@flexport
and more
So many opportunities for
#seagiders
to support the DoD
This is the place to make it happen!
Amazing event
@KTmBoyle
@davidu
🙏
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Thanks for the buzz
@CNN
! The most exciting thing about the press we’ve gotten so far is that everyone seems to really *get* what we’re doing. The need for a better mode of regional transportation is universal.
#REGENT
is making it happen
#seagliders
#futuremobility
#cleantech
Boston-based REGENT says it's planning to build the first all-electric "seaglider," a ground-effect vehicle with top speeds of 180 mph. The company hopes it will change the future of transportation over water.
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Regional travel has not changed since the 1950s. That is bonkers.
Seagliders will drastically reduce both the cost and time of regional trips:
- LA ➡️ SF or BOS ➡️ NYC in 2:15 hr for $100
- MIA ➡️ Bahamas in 1:20 hr for $63
Hawaii, New Zealand, Japan interislands.
And more.
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A wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) craft is a superior option for electric vehicles.
You get:
✅ Higher efficiency (flying on a cushion of air)
✅ Lower fuel reserves required (always above safe landing)
But WIGs have had their issues getting off the ground, er, water.
Here's why
There is something magical about ground effect.
It's no surprise mother nature takes advantage of this aerodynamic hack for flight efficiency and lift augmentation.
How does it work? 👇
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REGENT builds seagliders – the first ever wave-tolerant WIG.
Adding a hydrofoil allows effortless travel through harbors and waves
✅ More comfortable for passengers
✅ More maneuverable and safe
✅ More efficient with zero emissions
It's not trivial, here's the tech problem:
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This time last year, Mike & I were feverishly preparing for YC Demo Day
Today we have:
✅ $27M from amazing investors like
@peterthiel
@Justin_Mateen
@foundersfund
@tonsing
@mcuban
✅ 22 world-class employees
✅ $4.6B in orders
One step closer to revolutionizing transportation
Announcing additional $18M of capital, giving us $27M total raised to accelerate dev of our full scale 12pax
#seaglider
.
This strategic funding round includes
@MesaAirlines
, leads
@peterthiel
@alchemyamerican
@justin_mateen
& more
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Thrilled to announce our partnership with
@BrittanyFerries
and their letter of intent to purchase large (50-150 seat) seagliders for English Channel operations by 2028.
#seagliders
#flyingferries
#maritimetech
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To take off and land at low speeds, seagliders feature a "blown wing".
The propellers blow directly over the wing so the wing sees fast moving air - generating high lift - EVEN WHILE the vehicle is moving slowly.
This has only become possible recently. Why?
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Epic evening at Hill & Valley Forum - co-sponsored by REGENT 🇺🇸
With bi-partisan leadership, the nation's top dual-use and deep-tech investors, & amazing founders in attendance, it was hard not to be excited!
Too cool to see our
#seaglider
center stage at Library of Congress 🤩
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40% of the world’s population lives in coastal communities. This is a massive market.
It's one that has been validated by our $7B in provisional orders, by our firm deposits, by strategic investments from Hawaiian Airlines and Mesa Airlines.
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What a wild Friday...
⚙️ Years of engineering and test experience
🎟 200+ VIP guests
🤩 1 epic unveiling of our real-life, full-scale
#seaglider
mockup
So much to say on this enormous moment for
@regentcraft
- I'll share! 🧵👇
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Let's stop for a second to recap where we're at.
Wave-tolerance of hydrofoils + Low-speed takeoff of blown wing = Vehicle with convenience of a ferry (no long airport lines) with the speed of an aircraft.
🤯
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There is something magical about ground effect.
It's no surprise mother nature takes advantage of this aerodynamic hack for flight efficiency and lift augmentation.
How does it work? 👇
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Seagliders are coming to the south of France. 🇫🇷
Specifically, Nice.
Beyond excited to announce our MOU with the City of Nice and Mayor
@cestrosi
Why this is important: 🧵
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Last year at UP.Summit we unveiled our 100-passenger 'Monarch'
#seaglider
design - this year we have even bigger news 👀
Super excited to tell the world what's ahead for
@regentcraft
. Stay tuned for our big announcement tomorrow!
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Some major life news... I got married!!
(Ok so it happened in June but just getting the pictures up now 😁)
So incredibly fortunate to have married my best friend. Lindsey and I do everything together and no one supports me more. ❤️
I've been on top of the world since!
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Dont miss our TV debut! 📺
We gave
@CNN
a behind-the-scenes look at the development of our
#seagliders
- including some brand new live test footage!
Get ready for a great episode tomorrow at 12:30pm ET
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Do you feel the momentum 🌊
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World: Meet seaglider
Stoked to see all the positive feedback on our vehicle. It means the world is craving this technology!
REGENT is building regional transportation that is more
⏱convenient
🧘♀️comfortable
💵affordable
🔋sustainable
And we proved the tech works ✅
This Boston-based startup completed a test flight of its all-electric seaglider. “Many of the painful regional routes that people are trying to do with airplanes, cars, helicopters, and trains sometimes will be accessible by seagliders.”
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WIGs (+seaplanes) require high speeds to take off. This does not work well if there are waves...
At best, takeoff & landing are uncomfortable.
At worst, you cannot take off at all.
Who would base their travel on a vehicle that has a 50% chance of working?
REGENT solved this.
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12 passengers on our 1st vehicle.
Seagliders have maritime captains, not aircraft pilots.
All the airplane stuff - roll, pitch, altitude control, stabilization in wind gusts - is controlled by our automated digital fight control system.
Captain just does left-right, fast-slow!
@billythalheimer
How many passengers per plane on one of these? And does it require a pilot for fixed routes or could that be automated?
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Hydrofoils have a limited top speed.
If you go too fast, air bubbles form. Since air is ~1000x less dense than water, bubbles kill lift.
To rise up on foils at 20 mph (32 kph) for a comfortable ride, it de facto sets the top speed ~50 mph (80 kph).
Flying that slow is hard!
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David and Goliath... have teamed up 🇺🇸
Proud to announce REGENT has received strategic investment from
@LockheedMartin
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1/9 When Mike & I founded
@REGENTcraft
we thought about markets where sustainable high-speed coastal transit made the most sense.
Of course, the first place we looked was Hawaii.
Today we announced
@HawaiianAir
’s investment in REGENT. This is big...🧵
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While my honeymoon has me out of the country on Independence Day, we’re still finding a way to represent the red, white, and blue 🇺🇸
I absolutely love to travel, but at the end of a trip, I always look forward to coming home to the USA
Proud to be an American
#Happy4th
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CHILLS!!!
Cant stop watching this. Crazy exciting 3 years so far.
And the most exciting part is coming up next! Human flight, here we come...
On days like this, it's hard to believe that REGENT is only 3 years old. We've come so far but the journey's just begun.
The real work starts now.
#floatfoilfly
#seriesa
#seagliders
#startuplife
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Seagliders are
#Miami
bound! We found the perfect partner in
@SurfAir
@zebulgar
I’ll be seeing you more often…😎
Miami is known for its culture, its nightlife, its food, and as a gateway to the Caribbean.
Soon, it will be known as a major hub for
#seaglider
operations that could serve over 1.5 million people every year.
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We’re moving into new markets! We've focused on airlines and ferry companies to date - now we’re taking the big step into offshore logistics.
I’m thrilled to announce our partnership with
@TotalEnergies
to explore seaglider operations for offshore logistics & crew transfer
🧵👇
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Growing up in Boston, I always felt there should be a better way to travel the East coast. Getting to NYC is a pain. So
@mikeklinker
and I decided to build a better solution.
So proud to be building the seaglider at REGENT.
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Great time sitting down with
@FrancisSuarez
talking about the future of transportation in Miami! We're excited at the opportunities for a zero-emission coastal route network by 2025.
Thanks to our Miami investor contingent -
@aneelrr
and
@zebulgar
- for hosting!
#seagliders
Another great
#CafecitoTalk
with
@billythalheimer
from
@regentcraft
—they‘re thinking way outside of the box when it comes to the future of transportation and the way we can leverage Biscayne Bay to improve how we commute.
Excited to have Regent in our City!
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In friendly territory!
@HawaiianAir
@JAL_Official_jp
Thankful that REGENT has the best strategic investors in the world
#hawaii
#seagliders
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Hello world!
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Legit one of the best articles that has been written about us in a while - and getting some love from the local New England press scene!
Thanks
@BostonGlobe
@bamaral44
for coming out to our
#RI
HQ and seeing how
#seagliders
are made behind the scenes!
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Wild couple of weeks! Big & important step for REGENT to enter the cargo/logistics realm.
Couldnt have asked for a better partner than Yamato w/ over 100 yrs of parcel delivery experience.
We're doubling down on
#Japan
! Excited to see
#seagliders
carrying people AND packages
Seagliders can do it all! Adding cargo/logistics to our repertoire 📦🚚
Today we announced a strategic investment from Yamato Holdings,
#Japan
’s largest parcel delivery and logistics company.
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@TimSuzman
@pioneer_fund
@regentcraft
You guys were one of the first investors and real external validations after YC - it was an enourmous moment for us.
Still remember the diligence calls and diving into the weeds on our plan, which remains largely unchanged today!
Cant wait to get you and your son down to our
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Because I know you hold your portcos accountable,
@zebulgar
@foundersfund
, before you ask what we got done this week...
✅ New order from
@FRSFerry
✅ MOU w/
@TotalEnergies
for offshore logistics
✅ MOU w/ Nice France for
#seaglider
ops (ok...technically Thursday last week)
💪
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Every time I fly to IAD, I get excited. Why?
Because I get to see Daedalus - a human powered aircraft from 1988 that still holds world records for flight length and duration to this day.
And it’s actually been a big part of my life 👇
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It’s a glorious day at
@regentcraft
HQ!
Loving the new digs…where full scale
#seagliders
are under development right now 🏗️
#manufacturing
#americandynamism
#rhodeisland
#QuonsetRI
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Proud to have
@regentcraft
sign on as an active supporter of maintaining funding for
@DIU_x
, an incredibly important organization facilitating the development and fielding of new defense technologies. As an early stage dual-use company, this is exactly what we need to make a
This morning,
@SVDG_official
sent a letter, cosigned by over 60 leading technology companies and investors, encouraging congressional leaders to maintain support for the
@DIU_x
in the FY24 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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When you try to book a flight an you need to add another **30%** for taxes 😒
Imagine if you didn't have to pay an arm and a leg for TSA, the national Air Traffic Control system, airports and runway maintenance...
Maritime transportation is the answer
#seagliders
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Dubai to Abu Dhabi:
⏱️In a half hour
💰For under $30
💡With zero emissions
REGENT plans to make this a reality by 2025.
.
Thanks for the coverage
@cnnarabic
! We're very excited about the opportunities in the Middle East
#seagliders
#coastaltransport
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Boom!! Real hardware in the water 🔧
This is what the future of maritime transportation looks like. Meet the world's first
#seaglider
#prototype
👇
Hello, world! 👋
Meet our seaglider technical demonstrator. When we're not floating or foiling in Tampa Bay, you'll find us preparing for flight and pioneering the future of 100% electric coastal travel.
#REGENT
#seagliders
#floatfoilfly
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Truly epic time at
@UPPartnersVC
's
#UPsummit2022
. Super excited to unveil some of
@regentcraft
's new work-in-progress concepts on our next generation Monarch
#seaglider
to the brightest minds in the industry.
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Thank you
@FastCompany
for recognition as one of the
#FCMostInnovative
!
We've been building something wildly different from existing transportation for 2 yrs now - SO COOL to see the world taking notice 👀
Just the beginning here - customers are waiting for their
#seagliders
!
We're proud to announce that REGENT has been named one of
@FastCompany
's Most Innovative Companies of 2023 for developing the all-electric
#seaglider
. Kudos to the entire REGENT team whose passion and efforts have made this honor possible!
#FCMostInnovative
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Proud to be 1 of only 14 companies representing W21 in the YC Top Companies batch this year, out of the ~350 in the W21 cohort!
REGENT is growing fast 📈
Congratulations to the 2023 YC Top Companies!
There are now 16 public YC companies, 290 private YC companies and 33 exits that are valued at over $150M, and over 80 that are worth more than $1B.
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1/2 Driving the 1.5-2hr desert road from Dubai to Abu Dhabi and thinking to myself, imagine doing this in <30 mins on a
#seaglider
and having stellar waterfront views.
Now imagine if we took it global…
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Shout out to
@mcuban
, one of
@REGENTcraft
's very first investors, for his visit today and awesome words of advice on startups, leadership, and what it takes to build hard things like
#seagliders
.
Of the many things he said, this is what I plan to remind the team daily:
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The team is growing! World class talent here. Working with this crew makes me believe in our vision that much more!!!
#regent
#nauticalchic
#team
#boston
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Congratulations to the whole
@virgingalactic
team!!! Working for Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic in 2012 gave me an inside look at what a truly herculean task making spaceflight safe and routine is. Amazing work to all involved - great day for aerospace!
#Unity22
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Nothing quite like a morning seaglider flight 👌
Going up? ⬆️
Earlier this week, we tested our 1/4 scale
#seaglider
in the waters of Narragansett Bay. We’re excited by our progress and can’t wait to see our full-scale seaglider
#FloatFoilFly
!
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Big team win for REGENT and the whole
@MassDOT
Aeronautics team! Excited to announce we’ll be representing
#advancedmaritimemobility
and charting the path to make multi-modal sea+air transportation a reality with NASA and the rest of our team!
#AAM
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Firm orders. Experienced operators. Real technology.
The reality of our order book mirrors the rigor of our safety-focused engineering.
Now, we have orders across ferries *and* airlines.
We couldn't be happier to partner with a leader in sustainable transportation!
#seagliders
Thrilled to partner with
@iFlySouthern
to operate
#seagliders
through New England and Florida.
This $250M firm order represents the future of clean coastal travel in these markets.
We couldn’t ask for a better partner in Southern 🤝🌊🛫
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@immad
For better or worse, many world-changing products are not “capital-light” to develop…
@SpaceX
@Tesla
@Rivian
@Proterra_Inc
@relativityspace
@ablspacesystems
@boomaero
@hermeuscorp
@stoke_space
@heartaerospace
@jobyaviation
@ArcherAviation
@Lilium
@regentcraft
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Starting my New Year’s Resolution. No caffeine between my 1st and 2nd cup of coffee.
I’m going in, wish me luck.
Starting my New Year's Resolution. Fasting daily between lunch and dinner. I'm going in, wish me luck.
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9/9 This is the future we are building at REGENT. And with our safety-focused, rapid-prototyping approach pointing to first commercial passengers by 2025, it is a future that is not too far away…
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Float. Foil. Fly. The future of ferries is
#seagliders
!
It was an honor to speak at
#Interferry45
to an audience full of global ferry industry leaders.
#REGENT
has arrived!
#maritimetech
Billy Thalheimer, CEO of
@RegentCraft
, presenting at the 45th Annual Interferry Conference, speaking about
#RegentCraft
’s transformative
#FlyingFerries
#seagliders
#maritimetech
#santander
#interferryconference
#interferry45
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When the Senator calls you up and says "I want to fly a seaglider"...😁
So awesome hosting
@SenWhitehouse
yesterday for an action packed afternoon of
#seaglider
demos and flight simulation!
Feeling the
#Rhody
love ⭐️⭐️⚓️⭐️⭐️
Great visit yesterday with
@REGENTCraft
.
I had the chance to learn more about the future of 100% electric air travel, meet the team working on this incredible technology, and even experience a seaglider demonstration right here in Rhode Island!
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Still cannot get over how cool this was.
@SenWhitehouse
it was an honor to host you at REGENT HQ in
@QuonsetRI
!
We look forward to also hosting employees
#15
,000... 20,000... 30,000... 📈😄
Go
#Rhody
!
Celebrating 13k
@QuonsetRI
jobs at
@RegentCraft
– maker of these amazing high-speed electric seagliders.
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8/9 Almost half the world’s population lives within an hour’s drive of the coast. The biggest cities are coastal. Their airports are coastal.
We’re going back to our roots – reviving maritime transportation. Removing the overhead and angst of airports on regional trips.
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2/9 First, new aircraft cost billions of dollars to develop/certify and a decade of work with the FAA. Despite the FAA’s best efforts to support innovation, a new airframer has to get in line behind 100 other electric aircraft manufacturers for the FAA’s limited resources.
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Croatia here we come! 🇭🇷
#adriatic
#seagliders
Excited to announce our newest Launch Customer
@splitexpress
AND the addition of
@aklanac
- Split Express CEO, Interferry Board Member, and professor of naval structures - to our Advisory Board!
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Our early investors said: You'll know when it's time to hire a CFO. Well... its time!
We're hiring the first addition to the C-suite besides our founders. Apply here and check out thread to learn more 👇
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4/9 By starting with seagliders - a wing-in-ground (WIG) vehicle - our tech and cert hurdles are much more manageable giving us an immediate business use-case.
By going electric and taking advantage of ground-effect, we gain access to existing ferry and seaplane markets and…
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#CNN
episode is live! Check it out for some brand new test footage 📺
Awesome to share the stage with
#hyperloop
,
@boomaero
, and
@volocopter
- next frontier in transportation here we come!
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REGENT builds boats. They happen to fly.
Where do you go to sell boats?
The Newport International Boat Show of course!!
Doing boat stuff in Rhody ⚓️
#nibs
#newport
#RhodeIsland
#boatshow
#maritime
#seaglider
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Transforming the way the world moves is a monumental undertaking.
Fortunately we have the world's greatest advisors to help us get there!!🙌
Big things ahead.
We're thrilled to add David and Dennis to our world-class team of advisors as we gear up for the next phase in our growth - building full-scale, human-carrying
#seagliders
!
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Star Wars, in large part, inspired me to become an aerospace engineer. Proud to be turning sci-fi into reality at REGENT. May the 4th be with you!
We at REGENT were inspired by Star Wars growing up. Now we're bringing landspeeders to life as
#seagliders
May the 4th be with you!
#starwarsday
#futuremobility
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An in-depth dive on all things seagliders, Marine Corps, early fundraising, even certification - great discussion with
@vc
and Mike on the
@MergeNewsletter
podcast.
Check it out! 👇
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Dressing for success at Wharton Aerospace Ventures conference 👌
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One of the coolest parts of this video to me is the fact that we stitched multiple flights together to make it.
We flew again, & again, & again.
We're putting the seaglider prototype through its paces to validate our engineering models.
All to drive full-scale product safety.
A Boston-based startup has completed a test flight of its all-electric seaglider -- a mix of boat and plane that it hopes will be a travel solution between coasts and islands.
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7/9 When we consider new prototype cells in development, or even hydrogen propulsion – we increase our range to 500 miles. Now we service airline routes, connecting LA to SF, Boston to NYC, Hong Kong to Taipei, Singapore to Kuala Lumpur. The list goes on…
The reason it works?
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Some home-town coverage of a strong New England
#manufacturing
partnership! We're building real hardware now 👷🧑🔧
Our
#prototype
will demonstrate our FLOAT, FOIL, FLY operations that makes
#seagliders
the first commercially viable ground effect vehicle in history 🌊🛫
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It is obviously a big technical challenge to make high-speed, low-altitude flight possible - and safe.
This is exactly what the team at
@regentcraft
is working so hard on every day.
Funny, nature makes it look so easy... 🤩
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3/9 Then, when it comes time for flight test, an airframer must coordinate with a dozen different government acronym organizations to get experimental flight testing approved over populated areas. And rightfully so – safety is paramount!
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Could not agree more
@tonsing
☕️🚀
One of the best and most under the radar investors of the last decade:
@tonsing
.
Caffeinated Capital Fund I ($7.86M) with investments in the seed round of:
Airtable ($11BN latest valuation)
Virta Health ($2.1BN latest valuation)
Front ($1.7BN Latest Valuation)
Opendoor
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Today we announced a
#seaglider
transportation network for the State of Hawai‘i, anchored by a feasibility study and driven by new energy, infrastructure, and operator partnerships.
Why is this a BIG DEAL? 🧵👇
1/1 We are excited to announce new partnerships with Pacific Current and
@MokuleleAir
to bring a
#seaglider
transportation network to the State of Hawai‘i. 🏝️🌊🌺
Read the full announcement ➡️
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🚨New customer alert🚨
Super excited to announce our latest order from
@FRSFerry
@FRSWorldwide
@FRSClipper
!
FRS is one of the only GLOBAL ferry operators:
🛂 8M passengers annually
⛴ 69 vessels
🌍 13 countries
Fast Reliable Seaways? Might become...Flying Reliable Seaways 😎🛫
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Fortunately my CTO can pitch too 🤙
@mikeklinker1
(This is hilarious though 😂)
When you bring your CTO to a VC pitch to explain your tech and immediately regret it
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5/9 we can also glide and land on the water in the event of an emergency, drastically reducing our fuel reserve requirement and enabling regional ranges – 180 miles – with existing battery tech, while still bookkeeping real-world considerations like use of old, low-life batteries
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With the ground interfering with the full development of the wingtip vortices, more of the power of the airplane goes into pushing the airplane forwards rather than swirling air behind it.
Check out this airplane at takeoff - the vortices are substantially compressed!
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I love Internship Final Presentation Day!! Seriously, one of my favorite days of the year.
Congrats to
@regentcraft
's class of 2023 interns for some AMAZING work 🤩
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Morgan Stanley now calling eVTOL initial commercial deployment in 2035-2040. With all the regulatory, technology, and traffic management hurdles facing UAM - I couldn't agree more.
REGENT is on pace for commercial deployment by 2025.
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