Air taxi

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Air taxi

An air taxi ( English air taxi ), also air taxi , a small plane or a (electric) driven aircraft , which by airlines for commercial passenger or freight operations in charter traffic is used. Several companies are currently working on the further development of air taxis that can take off and land vertically ( eVTOL ), are electrically powered and should fly autonomously.

Within the European Union, air taxi flights are defined as "with regard to flight and duty time restrictions, non-scheduled flights in commercial air traffic that are operated on request with an aircraft with a maximum operational passenger seating configuration (MOPSC) of 19 seats or less ".

Air taxi company (selection)

New concepts

With the start-up Kitty Hawk (subsidiary: Zephyr Airworks , cooperation with the airline Air New Zealand ), Google co- founder Larry Page wants to start a flight service with air taxis in New Zealand. The aircraft called Cora with thirteen electric motors is to fly autonomously, carry two passengers and have a range of up to 100 kilometers at a top speed of 177 km / h. The German company Lilium , which Template: future / in 5 yearswants to be ready for series production by 2025 , is also pursuing similar concepts .

Vahana from Airbus A3 from California, Volocopter and the Airbus concept CityAirbus from Germany and Ehang from China rely on autonomous flying taxis .

Of this under the auspices of DLR developed four-seat airplane: HY4 is with hydrogen - fuel cell powered and can thus greatly increase the endurance in comparison to a pure battery power, it achieves a range of up to km 1,500th

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BT-Drs. 19/3248 : Manned, fully electric and safe high-flyers ("flying taxis")
  2. ↑ Tanja Tricarico: Air taxis between Sci-Fi and the future . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 28, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 9 ( taz.de [accessed on March 28, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Manned drones - flying taxis in a test run . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed April 4, 2018]).
  4. ↑ In seven minutes through Munich - in the future flying taxis at the main station? July 5, 2018 ( muenchen.tv [accessed July 9, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Amendment of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 965/2012 on the website of the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt , accessed on June 21, 2017 (PDF).
  6. ^ Daniel Bönnighausen: Kitty Hawk and Air New Zealand develop air taxi service. Electrive.net, October 18, 2018, accessed April 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Lilium Jet flies: five seats, great travel experience in use from 2025. CleanThinking.de, May 16, 2019, accessed on May 16, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Google co-founder presents electric air taxi. Internetworld.de, March 13, 2018, accessed on March 13, 2018.
  9. ↑ HY4 - emission-free passenger flights. (PDF) German Aerospace Center , accessed on March 15, 2019 .