AVIATION

Air taxi hub to be established in Florida

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The US’s first regional hub for flying cars is to be built in Orlando, Florida by the Tavistock Development Corp and aviation startup Lilium.  The Lake Nona Vertiport will be built near Orlando International Airport in the Lake Nona community, which has ambitions to become a ‘smart city’ and is already home to medical and … Read more

UK government dishes out £7m for new aviation tech

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Projects which will explore medical deliveries by drone, hydrogen delivery aircraft, and retrofitting aircraft with electric propulsion are among 20 to receive funding from the UK government.  The £7m funding is part of the £33.5m available via the ‘Future Flight Challenge’, which aims to develop technologies to enable new classes of aircraft and reduce reliance … Read more