Nautilus is a San Diego company working on a fuselated flying wing type aircraft for 200 passengers.

The company Nautiluswith headquarters in San Diegois one of the several that are betting on a new generation of passenger aircraft with advanced designs that significantly reduce consumption, and therefore emissions; and? They hope to take over an important part of the market In 10 or 20 years, trying to get ahead of Airbus and Boeing.

Now, Aleksey Matyushev, co-founder and CEO of Nautilus ha announced that they have achieved 28 million dollars in financingmainly contributed by Draper Associates, a firm that manages an investment fund of more than 2,000 million dollars; that They have hired a former senior Boeing executive to their board of directors; and that they will soon announce more important signings.

All of this shortly after having presented the design of its cargo planes, the Kona, and for 200 passengers, the Horizon. Both fuselated wing type (blended wing body in English). According to He explained, the explosion of Amazon and e-commerce gave them the idea to make a new plane that would not fill up before reaching its maximum cargo capacity. by weight, as is the case today with many airplanes, which move more cargo by volume than by weight.

Matyushev stated during the presentation at its facilities, What are they going to be?the next boeing”and that for this andare creating “a board of directors at the height of that ambition”. Among its shareholdersexplained that there is the former Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg through his investment company New Vista Capital.

Also “accused” to Airbus and Boeing for lack of ambition since with the order books that have both, covering years of productionand the cost of designing, developing, building and certifying a new aircraftwhich can reach billions of dollars “there are no incentives to innovate“Specifically estimated the cost of a new passenger plane at 7,000 million and the cost of a cargo plane at 250 million like the Kona.

About Kona, noted that they expect it to fly in 2028 and the Horizon a year later, and that they could enter service in 2030. The H.orizon is based on the design of a two-deck aircraftthe lower one for cargo and the upper one for passage, with a cabin 40 percent larger than that of a Boeing 737 or Airbus A321.

According to Matyushev, they have signed purchase agreements for 580 aircraft worth $23 billion. with airlines such as Ameriflight (USA), Nolinor (Canada) or SpiceJet (India).

He also spoke of the “competence”, noting that “The more successful you are, the more successful we will be.”, explaining that andcompanies like JetZerowhich has signed agreements with Delta, United and the USAF, not really a competitor since its design, although also a fuselated wing, is aimed at another market segment.

Nautilus has set an initial goal of producing five aircraft per monthand that already They are looking for a location for a first factory of 25,000 square meters, which will later expand to 325,000 square meters, with up to 11,000 employees.

Matyushev recognized some of the challenges they face. He chosen place must have good communications; and also you need to train staff “you need local support, usually you arrive in a city where carbon fiber has never been made”.