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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday June 23 2019, @08:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the missing-the-witty-repartee dept.

Aeroports de Paris (ADP), Airbus and the RATP regional transport announced at last week's Paris Air Show that

the Olympics afforded the perfect opportunity to bring into service futuristic Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) machines, and that they would launch a feasibility study.

The goal is to offer airborne taxies to tournament sites straight from the airport. Welcome indeed considering the typical commute by train or bus into town from Charles de Gaulle of an hour plus.

ADP has until the end of the year to choose a site for a "Vertiport" capable of hosting taxis from one of 10 aerodromes in the region around Paris.

The idea is to have the venue ready in 18 months, requiring infrastructure investment of some ten million euros ($11.3 million), says [ADP Group's executive director general Edward Arkwright]. He adds the project will test out the link "via an existing helicopter corridor".

Ideally, the service would see the taxis take off every six minutes.

Two prototype taxi models have already been built - "The single-seater "Vahana" and the four-seater variant 'CityAirbus'."

The battery powered taxis will be automatically piloted, use an existing helicopter corridor, and include anti-collision detection.

Deloitte estimates the size of the airborne taxi market at some $17 billion for the United States alone through to 2040.

So would you fly one or take the train at the Olympics?


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  • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Monday June 24 2019, @11:17AM (1 child)

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Monday June 24 2019, @11:17AM (#859310)

    AAAARG!!!

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    Because it wasn't there. There's a glitch in the system, or it could be an intentional attack on our sanity by the admins..

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