2024 Olympics may have flying taxis!
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The 2024 Olympic Games will be held in Paris. The city is doing its best to meet people’s hopes. The organisers said in an announcement that the city would have a Flying Taxi service ready before the Games.
In Paris, a brand-new electric flying taxi flew for the first time and worked well. So, the city is working to get the whole service up and running before the Olympic Games in 2024.
The public was shown the passenger terminal, an area for taking off and landing, a mission control area, and a hangar for the vertiports.
Important Details
- The German company Volocopter is making the electric “helicopter” that will be used as an air taxi.
- It was flown for the first time in the middle of 2022.
- The air taxi has room for two people and their bags.
- Additionally, it can fly for up to three minutes at a time.
- It can go up to 30 kilometres per hour.
- The speed was reached on a 500-meter-long path at a height of 30 metres.
- Furthermore, Volocopter will be put through a lot of tests to make sure it meets the standards set by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
- Volocopter plans to get its planes approved by the middle of next year (2023).
- Thus by the 2024 Olympic Games, it will start giving commercial rides.
- The project also has the support of the government agencies that are in charge of aviation and rules.
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First flight in France of the #Volocopter 2X at Le Bourget, during the #ParisAirForum. #UrbanAirMobility #eVTOL @MuseeAirEspace @volocopter pic.twitter.com/3AhNoLM7OW
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