Looks like France is the first to lift off.
Quote:Lean green flying machines take wing in Paris, heralding transport revolution. There has been much dreamy and not always credible talk of skies filled with flying and nonpolluting electric taxis
June 22, 2023, 1:56 AM ET
The Archer "midnight" flying taxi is exhibited at the Paris Air Show, Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in Le Bourget, north of Paris. Aviation industry CEOs and top government officials from around the world descended on the Paris Air Show for a week of deal-making and demonstrations of the world's latest air and space technology. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)The Associated Press
LE BOURGET, France -- Just a dot on the horizon at first, the bug-like and surprisingly quiet electrically-powered craft buzzes over Paris and its traffic snarls, treating its doubtless awestruck passenger to privileged vistas of the Eiffel Tower and the city's signature zinc-grey rooftops before landing him or her with a gentle downward hover. And thus, if all goes to plan, could a new page in aviation history be written.
After years of dreamy and not always credible talk of skies filled with flying, nonpolluting electric taxis, the aviation industry is preparing to deliver a future that it says is now just around the corner.