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  • SkyDrive lands another pre-order in Vietnam for 100 of its three passenger eVTOLs (Now 200 ordered)

    07/23/2023 9:50:22 PM PDT · by cba123 · 24 replies
    Electrek ^ | Scooter Doll
    It’s been a busy week for Japanese eVTOL developer SkyDrive, who has announced its second pre-order agreement in two days, its latest coming from CT UAV in Vietnam. That puts pre-orders for the company’s new SKYDRIVE eVTOL up to 200 in Vietnam alone. We will spare you the brief history of SkyDrive Inc. as we just offered a recap yesterday when the company announced a pre-order for up to five of its newly designed SKYDRIVE eVTOLs (seen above) by Austin Aviation in South Carolina. That initial letter of intent kicks off SkyDrive’s journey toward setting up shop in The Palmetto...
  • Japan's 'flying car' gets off ground, with a person aboard

    08/29/2020 12:31:05 PM PDT · by Libloather · 64 replies
    AP via MSN ^ | 8/28/20 | Yuri Kageyama
    TOKYO (AP) - The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory. Japan’s SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of “flying car” projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person aboard. In a video shown to reporters on Friday, a contraption that looked like a slick motorcycle with propellers lifted several feet (1-2 meters) off the ground, and hovered in a netted area for four minutes. Tomohiro Fukuzawa, who heads the SkyDrive effort, said he hopes “the flying car” can be made...