17 Oct 2018

Air taxis may be heading for NZ skies

From Morning Report, 8:55 am on 17 October 2018

Flying to work and beating the traffic might become reality if autonomous electric air taxis come to New Zealand skies. That's the plan of a joint venture between Air New Zealand and the aviation company Zephyr Airworks. The pilot-less aircraft will instead be directed by software, flying passengers across the sky at speeds of up to 150km/h. Anna Kominik is the country director for Zephyr Airworks. She talks to Susie Ferguson.

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