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Agility Prime: Air Force Hopes to Leverage Commercial Progress on ‘Air Taxi’ Vehicles

By Brian Garrett-Glaser

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

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Agility Prime: Air Force Hopes to Leverage Commercial Progress on ‘Air Taxi’ Vehicles

The Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayrton, Ohio. (Brian Garrett-Glaser/Defense Daily)

DAYTON, Ohio — At the Air Force Research Lab on Wright-Patterson AFB here the service has begun preliminary research into how it can harness commercial efforts on futuristic urban air taxis to increase capability and lower costs. More than a billion dollars have been invested by companies like Boeing [BA], Airbus and Bell Flight [TXT] — as well as smaller startups like Joby Aviation, ElRoy Air and Volocopter — into developing a new category of electric and hybrid aircraft that…

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