Porsche and Boeing Team Up to Build Flying Sports Vehicles
Look – up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a . . . high-flying sports car? Wait, is that a Porsche? This may soon be the reaction of many once we see what Boeing and Porsche turn out after their engineers get together for this little R&D project.
Details of the agreement
So here’s what was actually agreed to between the companies: Porsche and Boeing have signed a nonexclusive agreement to build electrical Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicles to get into a very quickly growing flying taxi market. In a joint statement they said they will work together to “create an international team to address various aspects of urban air mobility, including analysis of the market potential for premium vehicles and possible use cases.”
How far along are they?
Believe it or not, the two companies are already well underway. That’s because, in addition to the two engineering teams, Aurora Flight Sciences is also involved. This particular group is a subsidiary company of Boeing and has already been working on the development of autonomous electric aircraft. In fact, just earlier this year Aurora grabbed headlines when it successfully demonstrated its unpiloted vehicle, which took off vertically, hovered for a few seconds, and then landed.
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What are the companies looking to achieve by doing this?
While Aurora’s success is inspiring, it’s still in the early stages of what autonomous flying cars could be. Boeing stated that it wants to test forward flying cars, wing-born flight, as well as creating a better transition phase between vertical and forward-flight modes. It’s ambitious, sure, but with Boeing is one of the world’s largest aerospace companies right now, it has the engineering resources to realize these goals sooner than later.
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Are there any other companies out there doing what Boeing and Porsche plan to be doing?
Yes. There are dozens, actually. Most notably, there’s Airbus which, just last year, grabbed headlines itself when it successfully demonstrated its eVTOL aircraft. But where Boeing and Porsche are looking to create a worthwhile vehicle / technological solution here, Airbus is more-so interested in creating vehicles for its own network of flying taxis. Uber is another one on the list of competitors looking into this newer area of transportation, though they are not as far along as Boeing / Porsche and Airbus; at least, not that they’ve released publicly.
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