Originally Posted by
CPRich
Unless they someone engineer/build this thing at an order-of-magnitude cost lower than traditional aircraft, I don't see a business case for it.
I think this is their goal. There's an impression in Silicon Valley that anything done by a non-tech company is grossly inefficient, and that anything done by a tech company can be done at a fraction of the cost.
A lot of the time, they're right. I don't know about building an aircraft though.