The “passenger” model will carry up to six people, while a cargo version is in development. The first experimental test took place on February 14.
By Maurin Picard
Correspondent in New York
LNew Yorkers, overwhelmed by the noria of helicopters cluttering the skies of Manhattan, finally have an opportunity to rejoice: this Tuesday, February 14, a curious machine took off for the first time from a nearby airport, that of Westchester . The small white beetle from the firms Blade Air Mobility and Beta Technologies, which responds to the somewhat obscure name of Alia-250, has carried out its first experimental test. It can take off and land vertically (eVTOL, for “electric Vertical Take-off and Landing”), then move like a conventional aircraft.
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