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    He spent £60m promising to build flying vehicles. Now his world is unravelling
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    He spent £60m promising to build flying vehicles. Now his world is unravelling

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    1. fgalv on

      A rare piece of good investigative reporting from a Reach paper, well done to OP, who I assume is the journalist. It’s good to see this work can still come out of the horror show that is the rest of the reach network (and I know the journalists hate it too).

      Reading it though, you have to wonder how people didn’t spot the obvious deception and fraud?

      I also wonder when we are going to see articles about the astonishing sums of money that have been sunk into the Cornish “Spaceport” at Newquay airport, which will very likely never see a single space launch – but has received similar breathless praise from the local council.

    2. ihaveadarkedge on

      Mr Iyengar, 52, was described by former staff as highly charismatic, with an ability to turn up to important meetings wearing a scruffy hoodie and “charm the birds out of the trees”. Ian Martin, who joined Aerodyne as chief operating officer in 2022 and is yet to be paid for his four-month stint, said: “You could just have a cup of coffee with him and you’d probably be tempted to invest millions.”

      The origins of Aerodyne are surrounded by some mystery. On its website the firm claims: “Over the last fifteen years, Aerodyne has sold more than 1,700 aircraft into twenty-two countries, throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.” The same claim was echoed by the Welsh Government last year in material promoting the company.

      *from the embarrassing article, so packed full it was hard to pick select paragraphs*

      I’ll imagine the Welsh Government should look at how *they* were duped by this guy; they’re mentioned several times as being won over by the bullshit fron the questionable beginning…

    3. xwsrx on

      While Tory policy on lots of things bounced around like a shopping trolley with a wonky wheel, they did one thing very well.

      The emboldenment of grifters and those who would steal tax money from local schools and hospitals really was second to none.

    7. ox- on

      Flying vehicles are never going to happen due to the gravitational force. A short drop at a slow speed causes massive trauma injuries to a human body as the force hits in all 3 dimensions. Also the potential of crashing into people at speed on the ground will cause no insurance company to cover.