And will soon be in the sky?

The last 10 years there has been a boom in venture capital investment in the field of air taxi and other flying vehicles. Most of the devices are neither like a helicopter nor a plane - the designers come up with their new “breakthrough” schemes.

We all expect that a little more and everyone will be able to move around cities without traffic jams, paying reasonable money. But while projects, one after another, are raising new rounds of financing, real flights within the city are being transferred. Every year we are told: “it takes only 24 months and a revolution will take place”, but this period does not change over time.

Then is everything all right with this technology or is it another bubble?

Let us look together from the point of view of physics in this difficult question.

In the world there are already hundreds of diverse aircraft projects aimed at solving the problems of air taxi. Most of them can be seen at this link .

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