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The personal eVTOL market expanded last week with the first delivery of a Jetson One to virtual reality pioneer Palmer Luckey. The aircraft, which is about the size of a motorcycle, gets airborne with an array of eight electric motors and rotors and will fly about 20 minutes on a charge. It scoots along at a software-limited 63 mph and will carry a 210-pound pilot up to about 1500 feet. It includes a ballistic parachute as standard equipment. It costs $138,000. No pilot certificate is required, but new owners go through a familiarization course and Luckey got special consideration as the first customer. “The Jetson ONE unit was delivered to a facility in Carlsbad, California, where Jetson’s Founder and CTO Tomasz Patan and CEO Stephan D’haene assisted in person with the unboxing and pre-flight checks,” Jetson said. They said the young tech guru, an experienced pilot, breezed through the training and was airborne less than an hour later. Russ Niles Russ Niles is Editor-in-Chief of AvBrief.com. He has been a pilot for 30 years and an aviation journalist since 2003. He and his wife Marni live in southern British Columbia where they also operate a small winery.