Brett Adcock
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And he's like, I'm like, what are you doing here?
He's like, oh, I want to go do a career in eVTOL aircraft.
And it's called electric vertical takeoff and landing.
So, you know, a helicopter is a VTOL.
And you put a little E in front, so we're electric.
And he asked me what I'm doing here.
I was like, oh, I'm starting a company to do this, and I need to figure out how to go build these things.
And he's like, well, listen, my professor runs a small drone lab.
He's got a full building.
He's got 12 PhDs.
Why don't you come down and meet him and see if you can start building aircraft with him?
So I flew down.
that weekend to go meet his professor that runs all of basically mechanical engineering and aerospace.
And long story short is I ended up taking over his lab.
And me and him and his team started building aircraft in 2018 and 2019 down in University of Florida.
And I temporarily moved down there with my
my daughter at the time and my wife, living in Gainesville, Florida.
And it was great.
I ended up funding a lab right off of Archer Road, a new lab, because we needed more space.
We ended up calling the business Archer Aviation.