STORIES Jul 04, 2026 Otto Aerospace CEO Scott Drennan on the Phantom 3500: "We Are Clearly Better" Otto Aerospace unveils the Phantom 3500, a laminar flow business jet with a radical eggplant-shaped fuselage set to enter service in 2031. CEO Scott Drennan explains how new composite manufacturing and CFD modeling finally made this decades-old aerodynamic goal achievable. Read More →

STORIES Jun 28, 2026 Can Private Aviation Grow Without Losing What Makes It Special? Four Executives Weigh In Four private aviation executives joined AeroXplorer to debate the industry's biggest tension: as private and semi-private aviation scales, can it hold onto the human touch that passengers are actually paying for? Read More →

STORIES Nov 13, 2025 Meet the Startup Building the Plane Everyone Else Said Was Impossible AeroXplorer spoke with Meagan Villanueva of Otto Aerospace about how the startup plans to build the world's most efficient business jet. Otto is betting on a simple but radical idea: if you can minimize drag across an aircraft's surface, you can unlock performance improvements that legacy designs can't even touch. Read More →