Something that few people if any have said out loud about drones so far: a drone that takes off vertically assumes the fixed costs of having airport infrastructure as an operating cost built into every flight.
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The energy inputs are hard requirements. Moving in the air costs energy. Anything I read that juxtaposes “VTOL” and “low cost” I start looking for how thy are planning to beat the physics of flight.
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