> [Tomohiro] Fukuzawa [, SkyDrive’s CEO] is also targeting 2023 to begin taxi services (single passenger and pilot) in the Osaka Bay area, flying between locati

> [Tomohiro] Fukuzawa [, SkyDrive’s CEO] is also targeting 2023 to begin taxi services (single passenger and pilot) in the Osaka Bay area, flying between locations like Kansai and Kobe airports and tourist attractions such as Universal Studios Japan. These flights will take less than ten minutes—a practical nod to the limitations of the battery energy storage system. > “What SkyDrive is proposing is entirely do-able,” says [Steve] Wright [, Senior Research Fellow in Avionics and Aircraft Systems at the University of West England]. “Almost all rotor-only eVTOL projects are limited to sub-30-minute endurance, which, with safety reserves, equate to about 10 to 20 minutes flying.”