An ‘electric vertical take-off and landing’ aircraft built by Joby Aviation is parked at an airfield in Marina, California. If the ambitions of eVTOL pioneers are realised in the US, people will be able to hop in an air taxi to get to and from airports serving New York and Los Angeles within the next few years. — AP
SAN FRANCISCO: When he was still a boy making long, tedious trips between his school and his woodsy home in the mountains during the 1980s, JoeBen Bevirt began fantasising about flying cars that could whisk him to his destination in a matter of minutes.
As CEO of Joby Aviation, Bevirt is getting closer to turning his boyhood flights of fancy into a dream come true as he and latter-day versions of the Wright Brothers launch a new class of electric-powered aircraft vying to become taxis in the sky.
