Otto Aerospace recently introduced a full-scale mockup of its to the market. The news of its formal launch at the UP.Summit in Bentonville, Arkansas, dovetails with an order by , the world’s second-largest fractional-share firm, for 300 aircraft. At the unveiling, Flexjet chairman Kenn Ricci said the Phantom 3500 marks “a bold step into a future where an aircraft’s efficiency and sustainability stand alongside speed, comfort, and range as defining standards.”

The unusual, oblong Phantom is a clean-sheet twinjet design that looks like something out of a 1950s sci-fi movie. Its windows have been replaced by 72-inch digital screens, or what Otto calls SuperNatural Vision (SNV) technology, so passengers what passengers see come from cameras embedded along the exterior.

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