Lift off! Our full-scale electric aircraft has successfully flown at Cotswold Airport, hitting 40kts in remotely-piloted thrustborne test flights. Electric flight is within reach. 👉 #VerticalAerospace#VX4
This is an awful and shocking episode, where there was no criminality, but perhaps a complicated private life. That doesn’t feel very private now. I hope that will give some cause to reflect. They really need to. I wish @thehuwedwards well.
Lots of focus understandably on the immediate crisis today
But w/in weeks seems likely HMG is going to need to set out an Osborne-scale fiscal consolidation plan
Tory Party needs to get real fast about what doing this through spending cuts alone would actually mean🧵1/
The UK Civil Aviation Authority has today become the UK’s space regulator.
From today, we are open for business to any UK or international company that wants to operate under a UK space licence.
#LaunchUK