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Last year, the company also bought around 300 battery, flight control and propeller patents from now-defunct air taxi maker Lilium.
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Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
29 May 2026
AutoFlight has completed a heterogeneous three-aircraft formation flight with the V5000 Matrix, a 5-metric-ton electric aircraft that could push eVTOL technology well beyond the urban air taxi niche.
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Omar Kardoudi
may 27,
New Atlas,
27 May 2026
At stake is the first-mover advantage in an electric air taxi market that could eventually include autonomous aircraft.
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Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
Highlighting the impact of regulation on the race for air taxi supremacy, Helix is specifically designed to weigh under the 348lbs FAA limit, above which vehicle operators need a pilot license.
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Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for air taxi
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
29 May 2026
AutoFlight has completed a heterogeneous three-aircraft formation flight with the V5000 Matrix, a 5-metric-ton electric aircraft that could push eVTOL technology well beyond the urban air taxi niche.
—
Omar Kardoudi
may 27,
New Atlas,
27 May 2026
At stake is the first-mover advantage in an electric air taxi market that could eventually include autonomous aircraft.
—
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
Highlighting the impact of regulation on the race for air taxi supremacy, Helix is specifically designed to weigh under the 348lbs FAA limit, above which vehicle operators need a pilot license.
—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for air taxi
Recent Examples of Synonyms for air taxi
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One of his planes was in trouble.
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The day before, 12 people were killed when a plane on a skydiving outing in Missouri crashed.
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Ships, like airplanes, are designed with fluid dynamics in mind, and biofoul seriously messes that up.
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Scenes involving firearms alarmed distributors still grappling with the aftermath of the Columbine massacre, while the film’s October release via Newmarket was further complicated by a trailer prominently featuring an airplane crash just weeks after the September 11 attacks.
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Lands’ statement gives no indication of how NPS officials concluded the liner was cut using a knife of some kind.
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The president said that his administration would have to drain the pool and start over again as the new liner shed chunks of itself.
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From the Dallas Stadium, an unauthorized aircraft cannot come within three nautical miles or fly 3,000 feet ground-to-air.
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Additionally, 42 aircraft were lost or damaged, and 20 military installations were hit, leading to $29 billion in repair costs and an $80 billion supplement request.
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The central image was an airliner, something that, like life itself, experiences highs, lows and turbulence.
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The jet is a Boeing VC-25B Bridge, the military conversion of a Boeing 747-8 airliner.
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In the 1960s, the federal government also poured resources into developing a supersonic transport plane.
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Although supersonic passenger aircraft found a niche from the 1970s through the early 2000s with the Concorde, commercial supersonic transport is no longer available for the mainstream consumer marketplace today.
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For months, shipping companies have been in wait and see mode, carefully calculating the risk of moving ships through the strait.
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Transits tripled to 93 last weekend compared with the prior comparable period, according to ship-tracking data provider MarineTraffic, but remain far below pre-war levels when more than 100 ships transited the strait each day.
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Virgin decided to move on to the Delta-class program after completing 12 flights to the edge of space—above 80 km or 50 miles, as defined by the US government—with the previous-generation VSS Unity rocket plane.
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Ambitious short film chronicles daring flight of X-15 rocket plane test pilot (video) Going to SXSW 2025?
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“Air taxi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air%20taxi. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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