Port San Antonio is jockeying to be a leader in advanced air mobility, including electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
Jim Perschbach ’s vision to make Port San Antonio a hub for futuristic aircraft is another step closer to reality. Perschbach, the Port’s president and CEO, has long said that electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft flying around the city could become common in a few years. The idea is that the small craft, known as eVTOLs and sometimes described as flying cars or robotaxis, will transport several people or cargo without traffic delays or parking hassles.
Port San Antonio unveils new details about $300 million futuristic office tower “We’ve got a really immediate need for these aircraft as we keep adding people to our campus,” said Perschbach, who is on the Texas Transportation Commission’s Advanced Air Mobility Advisory Committee and was on the state’s Urban Air Mobility Advisory Committee.
‘Texas has to win’: New space commissioner discusses state’s booming space business “We believe it’ll be the first operational and actual, real vertiport probably anywhere in the world,” he said. “We’re actively looking for operators.” The vision is for Port San Antonio’s vertiport to be sort of a hub for eVTOLs that would ferry employees from park-and-rides across the city.
DeLorean — which emerged with a bang then disappeared — says it’s ready to re-restart in San Antonio The vehicle flies 2,000 to 5,000 feet above the ground, and most trips last 20 to 30 minutes, Dalton said. Wisk’s sixth-generation aircraft is undergoing Federal Aviation Administration certification, which the company hopes to complete by the end of the decade. Wisk’s Sugar Land presence largely focuses on infrastructure, Dalton said.
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