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Archer is targeting FAA certification by the end of 2024, and its first air taxi flights in 2025. With its Maker prototype logging successful test flights, the company has now unveiled Midnight, the four-passenger aircraft it’ll push toward production…. Continue reading Meet Midnight, the eVTOL air taxi that Archer will take to production
Korean startup Plana Aero, founded by the guy that led Hyundai/Supernal’s early eVTOL program, has begun work on a new long-range, hybrid-electric VTOL air taxi designed to carry up to seven people about 350 miles (500 km) at speeds up to 217 mph (350 … Continue reading Plana joins the eVTOL race, with unique-looking 7-seat hybrid air taxi
Chinese electric-vehicle-maker XPeng has been developing a teardrop-shaped eVTOL to serve as a flying taxi of the future, and has just flown it in public for the first time. The short flight marks an important step forward for the ambitious and well-fi… Continue reading XPeng’s X2 flying car makes first public flight in Dubai
Air mobility startup Wisk Aero has bumped up the passenger-carrying capacity of its upcoming air taxi from two to four, and none of those will be a pilot. The company intends to take its 6th-gen autonomous electric city hopper to market, and will now b… Continue reading Wisk Aero reveals 6th-gen autonomous four-seat electric air taxi
Lilium is celebrating another eVTOL flight testing milestone, with video of its beautiful Phoenix 2 air taxi prototype achieving a full transition from vertical takeoff to wing-borne horizontal flight on both its main wings and canards.Continue Reading… Continue reading Lilium nails full eVTOL transition milestone in new video
With plans to introduce an air taxi service at the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, SkyDrive has announced that lessons learned from the development of its sporty SD-03 single-seat prototype have informed the design of a new two-seater SD-05 eVTOL.Cont… Continue reading SkyDrive looks to fly into air taxi territory with two-seat SD-05 eVTOL
The team behind the ADIFO omnidirectional, supersonic flying saucer has designed and prototyped an interesting and unique eVTOL design with an extraordinarily quick and simple method of transitioning between vertical and horizontal flight modes.Continu… Continue reading Innovative “Mad Bat” tail-sitting biplane eVTOL can also use runways
UK company Vertical Aerospace has celebrated the first flight of its spectacular full-scale VX4 eVTOL air taxi prototype, demonstrating its faith in the design by taking the unusual step of putting a pilot on board. It’s due to enter service in 2025.Co… Continue reading Vertical Aerospace begins eVTOL flight tests, with a pilot on board
Zeva is moving to prototype a second-generation version of its radically different take on eVTOL flight. The Z2 remains a tail-sitting flying saucer that flies a single person head-first at high speeds, but the new model makes some practical changes.Co… Continue reading Zeva aims for efficiency and practicality with upgraded Z2 eVTOL UFO
Zeva is moving to prototype a second-generation version of its radically different take on eVTOL flight. The Z2 remains a tail-sitting flying saucer that flies a single person head-first at high speeds, but the new model makes some practical changes.Co… Continue reading Zeva aims for efficiency and practicality with upgraded Z2 eVTOL UFO