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Agility Prime: Air Force Commits to Winning Innovation War over Electric VTOL Aircraft

Agility Prime: Air Force Commits to Winning Innovation War over Electric VTOL Aircraft
The U.S. Air Force is hosting a digital launch of Agility Prime, its ‘flying car’ development and acquisition effort, from April 27 to May 1. (U.S. Air Force)

Leaders from across the U.S. Air Force, joined by Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, underlined the importance of revolutionary VTOL aircraft —and an associated U.S. industrial base — to the future of the military, speaking on the first day of the virtual kickoff of Agility Prime. Driven in part by the Pentagon’s self-admitted failure to secure domestic production of small unmanned aircraft, Agility Prime is the service’s effort to support massive commercial investment into electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft,…

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