We’ve taken a giant step closer to a Jetsons-like future with the opening of Urban-Air Port’s Air-One, touted as the world’s first flying-taxi hub. Opened last week in Coventry, England, the station is being positioned as a pioneer for more than 200 electric vertical takeoff and landing ports that are planned to be built around the globe. Zero-emission drones will ferry passengers and transport cargo as part of what the company calls “the coming green air transportation revolution.”

Don’t grab your suitcase just yet, though. Air-One is currently more of a model than a working vertiport. It’s intended to demonstrate the feasibility of a global network of hubs that could be constructed on land, placed on water, or even sit atop a skyscraper.

That versatility means that the vertiports could reach areas current air travel cannot, and they would also have a smaller environmental footprint with less congestion and air pollution. Vertiports would be positioned not just for passenger travel and package delivery, but also for emergency management and security and defense operations.

Constructed in just eleven weeks, Air-One has a 17,000-square-foot radial design that’s divided into zones. Different zones house a cargo and logistics hub, vehicle hangar, security screening area and command-and-control center, as well as a passenger lounge, café, and retail pop-up sites. The zones are anchored by a 56-foot circular platform that raises 19 feet for vertical takeoffs and landings.

Urban-Air Port said that Air-One will demonstrate how purpose-built ground infrastructure can unleash the potential of advanced air mobility—the company reported a market expected to reach $1 trillion within the next 20 years.

Executive chair Ricky Sandhu called the unveiling of Air-One “the starting gun for a new age of transport.” Other vertiports are in the works in the U.S., Australia, South Korea, France, Germany, Scandinavia, and Southeast Asia. “Cars have roads. Trains have rails. Planes have airports. Now, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts have an Urban-Air Port,” Sandhu said in a statement.

Currently, Urban-Air Port is partnering with Supernal, a Washington, D.C. company designing electric air vehicles. Supernal’s concept eVTOL vehicle, the S-A1, is on display in the Air-One hangar, and Air-One will demonstrate eVTOL charging from off-grid hydrogen fuel cells, as well as cargo loading and unmanned flights, including one for West Midlands Police (in England).

“The Coventry demonstration is an important first step forward to reimagining how people across the world will move, connect and live,” said Supernal chief commercial officer Mike Whitaker. Members of the public can order tickets to visit Air-One, located in a downtown Coventry, about three hours north of London.

Source: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/see-inside-worlds-first-airport-flying-cars

What is the need for a flying car na
Why don't you just call it mini helicopter or plane

Lolz. Road traffic will be a joke compared to air traffic with the population of our world imagine billions of air cars flying in the sky with aero planes and the rest lolz

What of when one comes crashing ?

A more suitable name should be given to this planes. Garage is to car as airport is to planes.

If this was Nigeria.... Corruption would've destroyed it ....

If airports are still needed for flying cars. Then that defeats the purpose in itself. If the flying cars can't stop you at your doorstep. That they require a special landing location. Then why not just make use of conventional planes and copters?

I have said it and i am saying it again, it will be very difficult for black rase to catch up with white people. They are miles ahead of us.

Flying cars and airport is an equation that isn't balanced, just stick to aircrafts

If you try use flying cars land for your house ehn, na collision with skyscraper go xup o

Reminds me of the days when I was kinging on GTA San Andreas, GTA Vice City & GTA 3, any race mission like this I would just activate the flying cars cheat code and cruise in the air, carefully crossing all checkpoints till the finish line. Boom! Mission completed! Reward: $1000, Respect bar go increase. Na when I don win comot to go for the next mission I go juz dey see the 1st runner up coming with an insane speed to the finish line

Hmm

Because of gravity, it would be difficult to replace cars in a large scale.

Imagine millions of flying cars and 10 develop fault, massive crash of probably 1000!

blazingblender:
What is the need for a flying car na
Why don't you just call it mini helicopter or plane

It's a flying car cos you can drive it if you wish not to fly

The world has left Africa behind

Hmmm

K

Hehehe

Nigeria is a cow country.

Nigeria no need this one

Ok

Nigeria will get there after Buhari and Tinubu leave the stage

OVB123:
I have said it and i am saying it again, it will be very difficult for black rase to catch up with white people. They are miles ahead of us.

let us create man in our own image
God referred to the whites not black

The black were created by satan,thats y our mentality is too dark

this is drone not car

We dey commission university under ASUU strike lol and bridges

Cool.

Now that ICEs are being overtaken by BEVs and more researches are going into turning ICE aerial vehicles into Battery Electric Aerial Vehicles, using a place like this should be more feasible.

The UK is outrightly banning the use of ICEs by year 2030.

blazingblender:
What is the need for a flying car na
Why don't you just call it mini helicopter or plane

For huge traffic in nigeria

So thieves would fly into your yard.
Just like that.

UK is showcasing first airport for flying cars. Russia's achievement would be Satan-3 extraterrestrial nuclear missiles that can blow up sun and moon.
Western Europe has left most parts of the world behind. 100 years ahead of us.