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Tokyo Air Taxi Project Brings Together Japanese and American eVTOLs

The Japanese SkyDrive and the Toyota-backed Joby Aviation will work together in a new UAM (Urban Air Mobility) project funded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, aimed at selecting vertiport ...
autoevolution

Vertical Aerospace to Soon Start Delivering the First eVTOLs to Japan

Over the last couple of years, we’ve been hearing all about the impressive pre-orders secured by various eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) manufacturers, from customers all over the world ...
Aviation Week

Wisk, Japan Airlines Partner To Bring Autonomous eVTOLs To Japan

Wisk Aero and Japan Airlines (JAL) have announced a partnership to operate Wisk’s sixth-generation, autonomous electric- vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi in Japan, part of a larger effort ...
Flightglobal

Japan Airlines to acquire up to 100 Vertical Aerospace eVTOLs from lessor Avolon

Japan Airlines intends to lease or purchase up to 50 of Vertical Aerospace’s in-development VA-X4 air taxis from aircraft lessor Avolon. The order, which sees JAL hold options to lease or purchase ...