{"id":442711,"date":"2021-10-14T11:09:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T05:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=442711"},"modified":"2021-10-14T13:51:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T08:21:18","slug":"flying-taxis-to-take-to-the-sky-in-mid-2020s-says-uks-vertical-aerospace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flying-taxis-to-take-to-the-sky-in-mid-2020s-says-uks-vertical-aerospace\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying taxis to take to the sky in mid-2020s, says UK&#8217;s Vertical Aerospace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fed up with traffic jams? Imagine a world where your taxi takes to the skies and lands on top of your office building, recharges and sets off afresh.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the vision of Stephen Fitzpatrick, founder and CEO of Britain&#8217;s Vertical Aerospace, which is set to raise $394 million in a merger with a blank-cheque New York-listed company, and who says his aircraft will be flying by the mid-2020s.<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s not alone. Some of the world&#8217;s most high-profile engineers and airlines believe Vertical is onto something with its plan for zero-emission mini-aircraft to almost silently take four passengers through the skies for up to 120 miles (193 kms).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed up with traffic jams? Imagine a world where your taxi takes to the skies and lands on top of your office building, recharges and sets off afresh. That&#8217;s the vision of Stephen Fitzpatrick, founder and CEO of Britain&#8217;s Vertical Aerospace, which is set to raise $394 million in a merger with a blank-cheque New York-listed company, and who says his aircraft will be flying by the mid-2020s. And he&#8217;s not alone. Some of the world&#8217;s most high-profile engineers and airlines believe Vertical is onto something with its plan for zero-emission mini-aircraft to almost silently take four passengers through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}