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The company also laid off 27 workers at its Fremont facility in the Bay Area, and a single employee at the company’s Mojave facility, where a demonstration flight test of Supernal’s electric air taxi technology had been scheduled to take place later this year.
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Pat Maio, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
The company has announced a partnership with the local Hefei government to launch its VT35, a longer-range, two-person autonomous air taxi based on the prototype VT30.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2025
These air taxis would carry four passengers up to 100 miles to their destinations at a cost similar to an Uber.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Electric passenger aircraft have flown in the US before, but only in test flights: ALIA was under the jurisdiction of normal air traffic control, following US regulators’ move to certify air taxis and other electric aircraft in October.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 23 June 2025
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Pat Maio, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
The company has announced a partnership with the local Hefei government to launch its VT35, a longer-range, two-person autonomous air taxi based on the prototype VT30.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2025
These air taxis would carry four passengers up to 100 miles to their destinations at a cost similar to an Uber.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Electric passenger aircraft have flown in the US before, but only in test flights: ALIA was under the jurisdiction of normal air traffic control, following US regulators’ move to certify air taxis and other electric aircraft in October.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for air taxi
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But as the departure date neared and the plane tickets hadn’t arrived, Pérez got nervous.—
Melissa Sanchez,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
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Not all staffing problems cause delays, as controllers can sometimes route planes to other airspace with more workers, but there are times slowing flights so a reduced number of staff can manage them is the only way to make everyone is safe.—
Nicki Brown,
CNN Money,
10 Oct. 2025
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Wheel wells are a common spot for stowaways to enter airplanes, and nearly 80% don’t survive the flight, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Oct. 2025
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Your search for the perfect airplane outfit ends here.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025
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The same thing happened just a few years ago when the dark-liner-clear-gloss lip combo, a look that’s been worn for decades by the Black, Latine, and Afro-Latine communities, exploded in mainstream popularity.—
Sofía Viera,
Allure,
10 Oct. 2025
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After prepping your lips for the product (see above), experts recommend tracing the outline of your lips with a lip liner.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
10 Oct. 2025
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Secure, redundant communication systems ensure instant presidential command, while E-6B airborne launch control aircraft can assume control if ground communication is lost, guaranteeing uninterrupted deterrence capability.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025
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The aircraft, known as ATHENA (Army Theater-level High-altitude Expeditionary Next Airborne), is a Global 6500 business jet equipped with a radome and a signals intelligence sensor suite.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Wright Electric Wright 1 Wright Electric’s Wright 1 aims to revolutionize commercial aviation with its 186-seat all-electric airliner.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Oct. 2025
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In July, the airliner grounded all flights for roughly three hours following an IT outage.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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In the 1960s, the federal government also poured resources into developing a supersonic transport plane.—
Made by History,
Time,
1 Apr. 2025
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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.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
9 Feb. 2025
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That history includes the 1947 Texas City disaster, when a ship carrying ammonium nitrate exploded and killed nearly 600 people, and the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, which killed 15 people.—
Isabel Rosales,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
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She’s invited on the ship to take a break from the hard-hitting stories that have shaken her up.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Oct. 2025
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Stratolaunch tests reusable hypersonic rocket plane.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
9 May 2025
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Ambitious short film chronicles daring flight of X-15 rocket plane test pilot (video) Going to SXSW 2025?—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Air taxi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air%20taxi. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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