HAI becomes VAI

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27th February 2024 | 21:04

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chopper2004

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From: The Alps

HAI becomes VAI

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

So Heli expo 2025 will be known as Verticon 2025

cheers

27th February 2024 | 23:29

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Sir Korsky

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

28th February 2024 | 00:58

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Tickle

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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.

28th February 2024 | 10:46

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helihub

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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.