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Friday, 7/10, 04:37 PM
Inside the eVTOL Air-Taxi Race and the US Pilot Program Testing It
- Electric air taxis are edging from prototype toward real service, helped by a US federal pilot program that lets a handful of companies fly under supervision before full certification.
- Vermont's Beta Technologies won seven of the program's eight projects, and it is racing rivals Joby and Archer in a capital-hungry bet that battery-powered aircraft can move people and cargo over congested cities.