Flying taxis hub opens in Coventry for demonstrations

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A hub for future vehicles like air taxis and delivery drones is opening to the public for demonstrations.

Over at least a month the Air-One mini-airport site in Coventry will host demonstrator flights and outline how to control aircraft.

The operator said it was “the starting gun for a new age of transport”.

Urban-Air Port added air taxis were yet to receive government approval, but a life-sized model of one being built would be on show on the ground.

It said the Coventry initiative was “a world-first demonstration of a fully-operational hub for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles – such as air taxis – and autonomous cargo drones”.