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Savion Aerospace's co-founders are Jon Gibbs and Adrian Townsend, and the company describes its service as on-demand personal jets at a business-class price point.
Co-founder and president Jonathan worked as a researcher for Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt and as an aerodynamicist at Boeing. Jon holds aerospace engineering degrees from M.I.T. and is completing a TUHH dissertation on Savion's Inverse Aircraft Design Method.
The company says its plane uses liquefied natural gas instead of kerosene or battery power and is designed for flexible travel. It plans to offer private jet service at a lower price point.
The company may disclose personal information to third parties to provide charter services, as stated in its Privacy Policy, but says it will not sell the information.
