Boeing’s Passenger Air Vehicle has just had its first test flight and it was a success. The autonomous flying car managed to take off and land safely during a short flight that lasted less than a minute in Manassas, Virginia. Read more…More about Ma…
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Lift Aircraft’s Hexa may be your first multirotor drone ride
We were promised jetpacks, but let’s be honest, they’re just plain unsafe. So a nice drone ride is probably all we should reasonably expect. Lift Aircraft is the latest to make a play for the passenger multirotor market, theoretical as it is, and its craft is a sleek little thing with some interesting design choices to make it suitable for laypeople to “pilot.”
View More Lift Aircraft’s Hexa may be your first multirotor drone rideTake to the skies with Alex Zosel and Yann de Vries at Disrupt Berlin
Passenger drones could be traversing city skies sooner than you think – German aircraft maker Volocopter recently flew its first autonomous passenger drone tests in Dubai, flying for five minutes at around 650 feet in a trial with no one on board. Long-term, the plan is to have aircraft zipping around at between 30 and 60 mph, with 30 minutes of in-air operating time and the ability to… Read More