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    "Alexis C. Madrigal",
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  "textContent": "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 […]\n\nThe post The coming air age that wasn’t: How Igor Sikorsky provided the template for eVTOL hype appeared first on The Air Current.",
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