The Economist - Urban air-travel takes a step closer
"As the morning mist slowly clears over Pontoise-Cormeilles, a regional airport 40km north-west of central Paris, it is time to check in at the vertiport. This is the name the aviation industry has adopted to describe a new type of air terminal. Vertiports will be used by evtols, or ying taxis as they are sometimes called. As the name indicates, these aircraft take o and land vertically, like helicopters. But instead of being powered by jet turbines they rel on sets of electrically driven rotors, much like hovering drones." (The Economist, 2022)
The full article :https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/11/16/a-new-type-of-air-terminal-opens-for-flying-taxis
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