While you wait, another personal air vehicle emerges from the desert sands. The video exalts the fact that it's a groundbreaking innovation (it isn't) and is the first of its kind, which is true to the extent that you yourself are the first of your kind. Nonetheless it's a step in the right direction as the market polarises between intra-city air-taxis for a number of passengers and recreational Part 103 vehicles like this for a single operator.
This then the fourth about-to-be that's promising some form of delivery off the back of advance deposits or expressions of interest, viz. Blackfly, Jetson, Ryse and above. Things to note however regards this handsome carriage are that unlike the previous it does not appear flying other than empty of the passenger that might double its gross weight, plus the fact that it is offered as a kit; a course abandoned by those clearly farther advanced and probably for safety reasons.
Aviation is littered with attempts at producing a utilitarian air vehicle that promises to make the air as safe a place to be as the ground, whilst space-flight for paying clients appears always to be over the horizon. Fact is, most pilots (and airline passengers) are united in not feeling wholly comfortable in the air and it's not set to change any time soon.
Benz, incidentally, refused to sell any number of prototypes as he consider them to be unsafe for the general public ~ and that was something never intended to venture into the air. Nonetheless as competition showed there was be no holding back the demand for what were essentially expensive and impractical playthings at the time, air vehicles are likely to pursue the same development year on year.
They are all pitched at around the $100,000 dollar mark and all have found a home in the US due to the relaxed regulatory system for aircraft of this type (as have air-taxis in China)... something that Europe struggles with. Which it did, however, for as long as it possibly could with the automobile.
