The coming air age that wasn’t: How Igor Sikorsky provided the template for eVTOL hype

Ten years ago this October, Uber announced in a white paper by its newly created Elevate unit that it was all-in on flying cars. Not that Uber actually called them “flying cars” in the document that introduced the general public to electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft — that was media shorthand for a term that refused to roll off the tongue. But even if reporters resisted Uber’s nomenclature, they were enraptured by […] The post The coming air age that wasn’t: How Igor Sikorsky provided the template for eVTOL hype appeared first on The Air Current.