Tampa International Airport hosts the first successful “air taxi” test flight in Florida

[Uffda]

Tampa International Airport hosts the first successful “air taxi” test flight in Florida

Airport, city and state officials gathered at Tampa International Airport Thursday morning to witness the first-ever electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft test flight at a large U.S. airport, as well as the first to test in the state of Florida.

Volocopter, a Germany-based pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM) and eVTOL manufacturer, and Tampa International Airport teamed up to bring the test flight to Tampa, allowing onlookers to witness the crewed, all-electric vehicle – commonly known as an “air taxi” – as it lifted into the Tampa skies from TPA’s airfield.



https://news.tampaairport.com/tampa-int ... n-florida/

[Garrett]

No thank you on any form of helicopter haha

[GenX]

People can't even handle avoiding colisions in two dimensions. The last thing we need is to add a third.

[Renovator2559]

If car congestion is a detriment and uses up a lot of space "asphalt".

What makes everyone abandoning the 150-200 seater aircraft for their personal VTOLs not bound to result into the same problems as car infrastructure?

I can only imagine the countless noise that personal. VTOL aircrafts will create, the asphalt and landing facilities that will be needed, looks like car dependency 2,0

[GenX]

Imagine the “asphalt” has infinite levels, and if you choose the wrong one, you and your passengers die.