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Jetpacks, flying cars and taxi drones: transport's future is in the skies

BY Reuters
— 1:30 AM ET 12/03/2021

 

By Jane Wardell

Wisk, a unit of Boeing Co. ( BA ), has been testing Cora, an autonomous electric aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter, at its base in Tekapo, New Zealand, for four years. 

Wisk is liaising with regulators, including the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, to get approval for public use of the air taxi, which can carry two passengers up to 100 kilometres (62 miles) at speeds of up to 150 km/h (93 mph).

"Sixty-seven percent of the world's population will be cities by 2030 ,so that ground infrastructure can't keep up and is costly to overhaul," Kominik said in a panel discussion recorded on Nov. 5. "We have to move to the sky as a resource."

Netherlands-based PAL-V is keeping one foot on the ground while taking to the air. Its two-seat gyroplane road vehicle Liberty, which has a maximum speed of 180 km/h and a flying range of 400 km, received approval for use on European roads this year. 

Delivery to customers will begin in 2023 after they complete the required training, said Robert Dingemanse, chief executive of PAL-V International.

He added that PAL-V had orders, including down payments, from 15 countries, with interest from 193 countries. 

Kominik declined to put a timetable on when Cora would carry its first passengers. 

"We don't expect we will be the first to market; we do expect to be the best," she said. 

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