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Posted on 01/26/2026 4:42:06 AM PST by DFG
A “Jetsons”-style “air taxi” may be transporting New Yorkers before the end of the decade, its manufacturer says.
The UK-based tech company Vertical Aerospace touted its futuristic Valo aircraft, a four-seat electric vehicle designed to fly up to 100 miles at 150 mph, at an industry preview in Manhattan last week — calling the contraption a first because of its zero-emissions power source.
“If you think of mass transport … the infrastructure just doesn’t work anymore,” company CEO Stuart Simpson told The Post in unveiling the craft, which has a pilot and is roughly the same size as a chopper and as fast.
He said his firm — which dubbed the vehicle an “air taxi” akin to something out of the 1960s cartoon “The Jetsons” — is aiming for the e-aircraft to be certified to fly short trips such as from JFK Airport to downtown Manhattan by the Federal Aviation Administration and UK regulators by 2028.
“This low-altitude economy frees up billions of hours for people where you can be with your friends and family, rather than sat in a car, squashed up on a train trying to get home,” Simpson said.
The air taxi’s back-and-forth destinations — routes to be devised by tourism companies and other businesses purchasing the aircraft — are set to use green energy to cut multi-hour journeys to airports, stadiums and weekend-travel destinations to minutes, Simpson said.
For example, the hourlong train ride from JFK to downtown Manhattan is expected to be cut down to just 7 minutes while being emissions-free.
A “hybrid” version of the flying e-vehicle can sit up to six passengers and jet across up to 1,000 miles.
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"Vertical electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft on display under blue stage lighting. 5 The prototype Valo e-aircraft is unveiled at an industry preview in Manhattan last week." 
"A prototype Valo aircraft is revealed to much fanfare in Manhttan."
Gosh that sounds good. But it makes no sense. The vehicle is not a power source. It's electric, and the power source is likely to be coal-power or nuclear power or something like that. This looks like a rich person's status symbol much like the private jets that fly in to Davos.
If a single motor fails, you’re......
[‘Jetsons’-style ‘air taxi’ could be flying NYers around in two years]
So they can FINALLY...
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
where do you land it.
Not much space for your luggage and where would land in downtown NYC or Chicago or Minneapolis ( Without a reliable weapon system)
Just don’t tempt fate and take one between JFK and the MetLife (Pan Am) building rooftop helipad. That didn’t go so well in 1977.
I was in Tokyo for a few days in late March last year. We went to the lounge of our hotel at the ~45th floor level. Amazing number of red aircraft lights on tops of buildings, and could see a couple of helipads. Looked at Google Maps, and you can see *lots* of helipads scattered around.
I imagine NYC is similar. But not as nice.
Have to charter a second one to take the luggage 🧳🧳🧳
Or have Democrat Sam Brinton pick up your luggage 🧳🧳🧳
😄😂🤣🤣🤣
I’ve been waiting 40 years for my hover car…
A friend works here:
https://www.jobyaviation.com/
yes, mega rich people have helipads, at their homes. But where do they land when they take them somewhere? Cant land at the grocery store, or the mall, or the school, or anywhere normal people go using cars.
The noise of “mass transit” by that means would be deafening.
It’s not “Jetsons-style” unless it folds up into a thin briefcase that you can walk with into your office.
One would think it would need to be able to land in many places where a traditional helicopter would not be able to land. Right?
But that is the trick. NYC will have to play ball and allow the business plan.
Unshrouded props. Yay!
“Amazing number of red aircraft lights on tops of buildings, and could see a couple of helipads. Looked at Google Maps, and you can see *lots* of helipads scattered around.”
I’m going to imagine those helipads are special purpose and not available to the great unwashed masses. Even if you’re a billionaire you likely won’t get some private helipad to let you land on your daily commute. The security risk to the owner would be great. Not to mention what insurance carriers will have to say about this.
It was lawsuits that ended American dominance of the personal aircraft industry. If a private plane is sold new, the cost is tripled to cover the potential liability that the builder might suffer. The lawyers are probably smiling, while sipping champagne and urging this on from blind media accounts.
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