Since the emergence of blockchain technology, different industries and sectors had been revolutionised. Start from finance, transportation, agriculture, energy, among others. Virtually anything can be coded into blockchain technology.
Blockchain technology had greatly change the way we view money, making it possible to send money across the globe without any intermediary, within a short period of time.
It never left transportation industry the same, making big companies like Uber and Lyft to adopt blockchain technology the decentralize road taxi and air taxi.
Air taxi market had been estimated to reach 1.3 trillion dollars in couple of years. And it is relatively cost effective to book a ride.
This made McFly.aero project to be formed.
ABOUT MCFLY PROJECT
McFly project is a platform that incubates air taxi.
It is comprised of 10 consortium members that came together to fulfill this project. They came together to make air taxi cheap, affordable and available for the masses.
FEW INFO ABOUT THE CONSORTIUM COMPANIES INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT
universa.io: Universa is a blockchain protocol that empowers IoT systems for the smart-city, which provides fast scaling backbone for the McFly token.
IAMaero: They manufacture cheap ultralight coaxial helicopters which will be used in (DAT) distributed Air Taxi and chatter network.
Farad Energy: Farad Energy manufactures capacitors that serves power bank eVTOL and charging station.
Emer Technology is a blockchain protocol designed for securing transactions and storage.
TFT Aero are developers of the pilot training software and hardware, aiming to train thousands of pilots in a short time.
Bartini is a manufacturer of an electric VTOL and want to jointly with other consortium companies provide a turnkey solution to the cities.
Creative Russia is a community of over 5,000 urban, industry, product and digital designers and thinkers.
Blockchain.aero technology consortium aims to develop standards for its members to provide turnkey solution for cities and lower entry barrier into the market.
Drone Employment is a provider of the turnkey solution to deploy a decentralized market place for services of drones connected to the grid by independent owners.
Hepard is a developer of an eVTOL for the mass urban use together with other consortium members.
Afrus is a certified aircraft interior manufacturer ,with experience in automotive and ship building areas. Afrus combines the knowledge of modern materials and technologies with quality standards and manufacturing practices that most exquisite users would expect.
Source https://mcfly.aero
In order to achieve this, McFly is currently offering ico to public, to raise money for the accomplishment of the project. And also to create awareness among the masses about the project, they are holding an airdrop and bounty.
The ico had begun already, currently in pre-sale.
ICO DETAILS
According to McFly whitepaper, 0.1 eth will get 1000 McFly token. Every purchase carries some extra bonus that varies depending on the time bought during the ico. The ICO pricing will range from 0.1 to 0.065 eth for 1000 McFly token during the ico. You can participate here https://mcfly.aero/token
WHY CHOOSE MCFLY
In the McFly platform the only token to be accepted on the blockchain to power the air taxis, that shall be deployed on the blockchain. It'll also be used to pay pilots, charging point providers, landing pads owners.
Therefore McFly token will serve as fuel in the McFly ecosystem, thereby giving McFly token liquidity. One McFly token is equivalent to a minute's flight.
To provide safety, the eVTOL that shall be deployed on the platform shall be assigned a lifespan of 700,000 minutes equivalent to 700,000 McFly token, after which the air taxi will be returned to its manufacturer and recycled or sold off.
McFly had some edge over its competitors :
----It's built on blockchain; which makes it to put control in the hands of passengers without any intermediary.
----It's planning to tokenize the entire estimated 1.3 trillion dollars air taxi market.
----It's cheap and affordable; one McFly token is for a minute's flight.
----It's open for for more companies to join the consortium.
The McFly project being an incubator for air taxi is open for any company that has service to render and willing to tokenize it's product on the McFly blockchain.
You can read more on their whitepaper here