Lilliam, the renowned flying taxi startup, has decided to build their hub to construct electric aircraft in Florida. A well designed “vertiport” is going to be established in Orlando very soon. The area allocated for the construction of the vertiport is around 56,000 square-foot. It is also being said that a $25 million budget will be required to construct the vertiport that is being planned by the company. Lillium is one of the eminent German companies that has initiated a flying taxi state up. Around the year 2025, the company hopes to bring five-seater small aircraft to the market. These small locomotives are going to make regional travels a lot easier than now.
Plans of Lillium
According to Lillium the project of flying taxis are going to get funded privately by the city council of Orlando. Not only is the company planning to create an enormous amount of improvement in the job sector once the project starts rolling they are also claiming that this is going to become the ultimate transportation hub and create a huge amount of economic activity.
After a detailed trial session the flying taxi venture has seen a green signal from the authorities. Now the company is making full-fledged preparations to launch the regional transport service in the full form. Now according to the company officials, their initiative is going to allow passengers to travel from one place to another in minimum time. the drive to such distances would consume a long time. In the year 2017 Lillium have proposed the idea of the flying taxi with the successful prototype that they had launched. The prototype had two seats whereas Lillium is planning to have seating arrangement for five people in the final model of a flying taxi.