{"id":123691,"date":"2021-06-11T15:24:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/uk-air-taxi-firm-vertical-aerospace-to-float-on-new-york-stock-market"},"modified":"2021-06-11T15:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:24:50","slug":"uk-air-taxi-firm-vertical-aerospace-to-float-on-new-york-stock-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/uk-air-taxi-firm-vertical-aerospace-to-float-on-new-york-stock-market","title":{"rendered":"UK air taxi firm Vertical Aerospace to float on New York stock market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uk-air-taxi-firm-vertical-aerospace-to-float-on-new-york-stock-market2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aircraft could be used to transfer passengers between home and airports, Virgin believes. It would be able, for example, to make the 56-mile journey from Cambridge to Heathrow in 22 minutes, compared with a 90-minute drive.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement represents another step in the race to making mass electric flight and air taxis a reality. Some analysts have predicted the sector could be worth \u00a3150bn by 2040 but significant hurdles remain, including regulation and safety certification. The VA-X4 has yet to take its first test flight. Do\u0301mhnal Slattery, the chief executive of Avolon, said its order would \u201caccelerate the inevitable commercial rollout of zero-emissions aircraft. Before the end of this decade, we expect zero-emission urban air mobility, enabled by eVTOLs, to play an increasingly important role in the global commercial aviation market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft could be used to transfer passengers between home and airports, Virgin believes. It would be able, for example, to make the 56-mile journey from Cambridge to Heathrow in 22 minutes, compared with a 90-minute drive. The announcement represents another step in the race to making mass electric flight and air taxis a reality. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}