The Federal Aviation Administration has published new rules that it calls “the final piece of the puzzle” toward allowing half-helicopter, half-airplane, electric “air taxis” to start whizzing through the skies.
On Tuesday, the FAA published 880 pages of special regulations that spell out how pilots will learn the new subset of aircraft designs, part of a budding multibillion-dollar industry being flooded with investment money in hopes of a future that closely mirrors flying cars from “The Jetsons.” “This introduces an entirely new category of aircraft,” FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said during the announcement at the National Business Aviation Association convention in Las Vegas.
The aircraft can fly like an airplane but takeoff and land like helicopters at traditional airports as well as new, purpose-built vertiports in urban areas. “This rule will create an operating environment,” Whitaker said. The FAA chief was flanked by a full-size model of the five-seat, six-rotor design from Joby Aviation of California, which claims its entrant into the category will cruise at 200 miles per hour and put off a noise signature that is as quiet as a normal conversation.
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