Vertical Aerospace Ltd. Ordinary Shares (EVTL) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning. My name is Jill, and I will be your conference moderator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Vertical Aerospace Second Quarter 2026 Business and Strategy Update Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. I will now turn the call over to Jillian Levine, Investor Relations Lead at Vertical Aerospace, You may begin your conference. Good morning and welcome to Vertical Aerospace's first half 2026 business update call. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that during today's call, we will be making forward-looking statements. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. Any forward-looking statements we make are based on assumptions as of today, and we undertake no obligation to update them as a result of new information or future events. We have posted an accompanying presentation to the Investor Relations section of our website, which contains additional information and cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements. For a more complete discussion of the risks and uncertainties affecting our business, please refer to the financial results and other materials filed with the SEC today. Today's call will be led by Stuart Simpson, our Chief Executive Officer. Stuart will be joined by Simon Davies, our Chief Task Pilot, and Michael Cervenka, our Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer. Following prepared remarks, we will open the call for questions. With that, I will hand it over to Stuart. Thank you Gillian and good morning everyone. The first half of 2026 has been one of the most important periods in Vertical's history. In April we completed the first two-way pi...