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For urban moblity, let's take a use case of flying someone from central london to heathrow airport i.e. 20miles or 30km.

Assuming this thing could fly at 60km/h then a flight time of 30 minutes would be required.

I'm not aware of any electric VTOL vehicle with this capability at the moment. But we live in hope.

[gardnr]

Well put. I do appreciate your notion of hope. I was going to express this sentiment as "no fucking way!" but in reality I am glad someone is working on (currently) impossible problems.

[ben_bai]

The 2X predecessor is called VC200 and reaches 70km/h and had a flying time of around 20 minutes.

[dmitrygr]

In EU and USA, flying a passenger aircraft requires reserves of 30 minutes minimum (more in some cases, never less)

if your flight time is 20 min, you cannot legally take off

if your flight time is 31 minutes, your flight cannot legally be planned to be over a minute long