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hy is it important to
Lindbergh, his partners, and
employees to develop this
product now?
“Our traffic and infrastructure
on ground is saturated by cars
and is incredibility wasteful.”
He asks hypothetically, “Why
can’t we use the third dimen-
sion to do short distance air
transportation?” Lindbergh
notes that with electric propul-
sion, this can happen.
Further, he feels that due to the
Uber model of passenger trans-
portation, and other technolog-
ical innovations, autonomous
passenger vehicles will soon
occur.
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He also cited that the FAA
is working to embrace the idea.
“The big aerospace industry is
here in the U.S., but the worst
traffic is in China and India,”
which he posed could indicate
the technology might arrive
there sooner but added that he
thinks that air mobility will
still happen first in the United
States.
However, Lindbergh notes,
“It’s one thing to fly experi-
mentally and one thing to fly
commercially,” as it relates to
the FAA.
VerdeGo Aero™ has some iron
bird equipment that they are
testing now.
“We’ve been working in this
area for 10 years. When we
launched the company, we
were working on the new Spirit
of St. Louis with Embry-Rid-
dle, and during that process we
decided we had all the right
tools to build a flying car. We
have lots of test hardware,”
Lindbergh said.
They have just announced a
partnership with Continental
Aerospace Technologies. Lind-
bergh said,