The Aviator: GE’s Brad Mottier Grew Up In Planes. He’s Now Helping Cut Aviation’s Carbon Footprint

One afternoon in July at the Oshkosh airshow in Wisconsin, Brad Mottier made his way through the crowded exhibition grounds to see BlackFly, an ovoid, all-electric one-seater that can take off vertically and zip across the sky like an insect at 60 miles per hour. He spent the next 20 minutes talking to the builders while studying the propulsion, construction, design and other features of the alien-looking craft.