Orlando will become home to the United States’ first ”flying car” hub which will allow passengers to take an electric-powered aircraft to most of Florida’s major metropolitan areas, the city and company building the ”vertiport” announced.
”This is truly ‘The Jetsons’ coming to reality in Central Florida’s backyard,” Orange County Mayor Jerry L. Demings said in a release Wednesday by the Tavistock Development Co., an investment company which is building the facility as part of its 17-square-mile Lake Nona mixed-use planned community.
The Lake Nona Vertiport near the Orlando airport is to be completed by 2025 with the flying cars supplied by Lilium GmbH, a Munich, Germany-based company which Tavistock says is the only manufacturer of a five-passenger electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle.
The ”Lilium Jets” can make the trip from Orlando to Tampa in about 30 minutes, an 84-mile journey that can take an 1.5 hours in nominal traffic but much longer in traffic along the notorious Interstate 4…