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Flying cars may have seemed like just a dream a decade ago but that dream is slowly making itself a reality in the best ways.
Besides just creating the flying car, the world is now saying hello to the world’s first ever airport for flying cars.
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Coventry, UK has been chosen as the location for the pop-up airport that will serve as a take-off and landing point for flying cars, air taxis and autonomous drones.
Though a world with flying cars may seem far off, the West Midlands city unveiled its plans to launch the airport with construction of the Air-One airport slated for completion in November this year.
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The pop-up site will take a matter of days to construct and dismantle, making it easily movable to other locations and cities, Urban Air Port shared.
Slightly smaller than an average heliport, the zero-emissions off-grid airport is set to feature an elevated landing pad that will descend into a hangar for charging and loading, take-off and landing runways, complete with waiting rooms for passengers, charging stations for non-flying electric vehicles, and a viewing platform for those who wish to see the future of travel up close.
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Official called a electrical vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVOTL), flying vehicles may not be as far off as we thought and they’re expected to become a significant player in the world of transportation over the next decade.
NASA predicts that “urban air mobility” technology could be worth up to $500 billion (RM2 trillion) in the US alone in the near future.
“Flying cars used to be a futuristic flight of fancy,” said Ricky Sandhu, founder of Urban Air Port. “Air-One will bring clean urban air transport to the masses and unleash a new airborne world of zero emission mobility.”
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This is definitely a step into the future!
We can’t wait to see what else technology will bring us!
If you could afford one, would you get yourself a flying car? Let us know!
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