(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 06 - The flight tests of the Velocopter begin, the flying taxi that will connect the center of Rome to Fiumicino airport in 20 minutes.
"Less than a year after the presentation in Fiumicino of the first Volocopter prototype, today is a first concrete step, entering the future, for urban air mobility. Thanks to Atlantia, Volocopter, Enac and ENAV. Rome will be one of the first capitals in which this new vehicle transport, the electric helicopter, in 2024, will begin to fly, in view of the Jubilee of the candidacy for the Expo ".
This was stated by the president of Adr, Claudio De Vincenti, opening at Fiumicino airport, in the Pianabella area, the event "A journey into the future - TheVertiport experience in Rome", which will see in the morning, in the debut of the first Italian vertiport, the first flight test in Italy of the Volocopter, the eVTOL electric helicopter, the so-called "flying taxi", which it will be able to transport from Fiumicino in the future
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