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The aircraft exist. The Joby S4 has completed thousands of test flights. Archer Aviation has FAA certification progress that would have seemed implausible five years ago. Lilium, despite its financial turbulence, proved the aerodynamic case for electric vertical take-off and landing at scale. Urban air mobility — the ability to...

The Mediterranean superyacht charter season used to have clear edges. June through September. The Côte d'Azur, the Amalfi Coast, the Greek islands. Predictable, well-established, and sufficient to meet demand. Those edges are dissolving. Charter bookings for vessels above 50 metres are now extending consistently into October and increasingly into November,...

There is a thriving market in private aviation built around one proposition: a lower headline rate than the operator next door. Brokers who compete on price. Operators who shave costs in places the client cannot easily see. Aircraft that photograph beautifully and perform below expectation. The principals who have been...

When Rolls-Royce delivered the Spectre — its first fully electric vehicle — the industry braced for resistance. The combustion engine, after all, had been inseparable from the Rolls-Royce identity for over a century. The sound, the weight, the particular sensation of a V12 at idle — these were not features....

The order books at the world's leading superyacht shipyards — Feadship, Lürssen, Benetti — have never been fuller. Delivery timelines stretch three to five years. The vessels being commissioned are larger, more technically complex, and more operationally demanding than anything that came before them. And the industry has a problem...