Empowering Superheroes™

Jump Aero founder Carl Dietrich has always dreamed of making personal aviation a bigger part of everyday life. After studying engineering in the MIT Aero/Astro department, Dietrich founded Terrafugia in 2006 to pursue that dream.

At Terrafugia, Carl led the team that developed the first aircraft capable of converting between a street-legal car and a light sport aircraft in less than 30 seconds – the Terrafugia Transition®. He led the development of early electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft concepts including the Terrafugia TF-X flying car and the TF-2 air taxi. After selling Terrafugia to Geely, the parent company of Volvo, Lotus, and Polestar cars, Carl established a global Research and Development center for Terrafugia which attracted top talent from around the world to advance eVTOL air taxi concepts and business models.

Carl left Terrafugia to found Jump Aero in 2019. Inspired by the same childhood dream of making aviation a bigger part of everyday life, Carl recognized that this new eVTOL technology opened a fundamentally new use for an aircraft—and that this new use case could have life-saving impact.

Jump Aero is committed to leveraging the unique aspects of all-electric aircraft propulsion technology to achieve the maximum benefit for society as quickly as possible by helping first responders save lives.

Carl joined forces with co-founders Jeff Myjak and Katerina Barilov to achieve the goal of saving over 100,000 lives each year with sustainable eVTOL aircraft operations. Laser-focused on this mission, Jump Aero bypasses many of the barriers that hold back eVTOL air taxis. By making a one-person aircraft that is operated by a trained professional, Jump Aero dramatically reduces the risk, the time, and the money needed to certify the aircraft to the necessary levels of safety while simultaneously opening a green field $10bn market opportunity that has overwhelming public support.