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Recent Examples of air taxi
If the ambitions of eVTOL pioneers are realized in the U.S., people will be able to hop in an air taxi to get to and from airports serving New York and Los Angeles within the next few years.
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Michael Liedtke, The Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2025
How to deal with air taxis working in the vicinity of Austrian governesses frolicking in the Edelweiss has yet to be determined.
—New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2025
Experts have also pointed to affordability as a potential hurdle because air taxi services may benefit some residents over others.
—Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
Lilium also worked with an aircraft brokerage firm in Texas last year to try and make its $10 million aircraft the first-ever air taxi sold in the US.
—Umar Shakir, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2024
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Michael Liedtke, The Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2025
How to deal with air taxis working in the vicinity of Austrian governesses frolicking in the Edelweiss has yet to be determined.
—New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2025
Experts have also pointed to affordability as a potential hurdle because air taxi services may benefit some residents over others.
—Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
Lilium also worked with an aircraft brokerage firm in Texas last year to try and make its $10 million aircraft the first-ever air taxi sold in the US.
—Umar Shakir, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for air taxi
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This Lego Marvel set includes minifigures of Captain America, Falcon, Red Hulk, and Ruth Bat-Seraph, as well as a jet plane with two stud shooters.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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The plane exploded and plunged into the frigid Potomac River, killing all 64 people on board, including 28 members of the figure skating community.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2025
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In this case, preparing for war meant shipping designs, sample parts, and airplane prototypes to CanCar’s factory at Fort William late in 1938.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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In 1952, a case known as United States v. Reynolds went before the Supreme Court, in which the widows of three civilian crew members who were killed in a U.S. military airplane crash sued the government to obtain the accident investigation report.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
26 Mar. 2025
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In one example of China’s Cosco Shipping, which generated $6.7 billion in net profit in 2024, McCown highlighted that one vessel traversing the West Coast would cost the liner $3.5 million per port call.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Mar. 2025
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The breathable and form-fitting Nylon/Spandex liner is coated with nitrile (a synthetic rubber) for protection and grip.—
Nora Taylor,
Architectural Digest,
24 Mar. 2025
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The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of more than 900 African-American military pilots and airmen who flew combat aircraft in World War II.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Mar. 2025
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Past winners include the Wright brothers, the team behind the first aircraft to break the sound barrier, and the first moon landing in 1969.—
Natallie Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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Stratolaunch’s prototype was designed with a research focus for government, education, and business customers, but not as a commercial airliner, and is backed by private funds.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
22 Mar. 2025
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Boom’s plan is that Overture will be in operation before the end of the decade, carrying 64 to 80 passengers at Mach 1.7, about twice the speed of today’s subsonic airliners.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN,
3 Mar. 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 means a whole new generation of supersonic transports that will not only cater to the privileged few but the public at large.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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The Reds seemed to right the ship with four wins and a draw in their next five matches, but even those were questionable.—
Brett Koremenos,
The Athletic,
21 Mar. 2025
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The assessments look into vessel traffic, transit speeds, loading characteristics and more, especially as ships have gotten larger over the decades.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
21 Mar. 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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These lower operating expenses are tied to Virgin Galactic's decision to suspend operations of its VSS Unity suborbital rocket plane last year to focus investment into a new series of suborbital spacecraft known as Delta-class ships.—
Stephen Clark,
Ars Technica,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Air taxi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air%20taxi. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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