HAI becomes VAI

[chopper2004]

Greetings from Anaheim and the legacy Helicopter Association International becomes the Vertical Association International

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x361/vai_logo_orgname_horizontal_fullcolor_midnightblue_rgb_3df3f 0698bcc8993a61e5586efbe50c5a16f056b.jpg

So Heli expo 2025 will be known as Verticon 2025

cheers

[Sir Korsky]

Well I don't buy it. That's dumb.

[Tickle]

Does it incorporate electric VTOL aircraft? If so then I can see the need for rebranding.

But they could have at least got the logo designer to space the big VAI letters evenly.

[helihub]

HAI have long espoused eVTOL, so this is a logical move from that point of view. However, I'm not sure eVTOL developers have reciprocated - Heli-Expo 2024 is rather short on evidence for this.

Clearly our industry is heading towards different styles of "vertical lift", however near or far off any of us view those to be, and the HAI branding was looking tired. So it was either rebrand with a new logo etc or go the whole nine yards and do a rename at the same time.