Air Force Turns Focus to Flying Cars – By Frank Konkel (Nextgov) / April 21 2020
A virtual conference will kick off the service’s Agility Prime initiative to operationalize flying cars.
Where they’re going, they won’t need roads.
The Air Force will host a five-day virtual conference next week centered on flying cars, a sci-fi concept the military is working on turning into reality. The conference will serve as the launch for the Air Force’s Agility Prime initiative to operationalize flying cars—referred to as electronic vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL vehicles—for military missions and accelerate the commercial market for the emerging technologies.
According to an Air Force email announcing the event, it will also feature the “unveiling of a new aircraft.”
Air Force officials previewed the Agility Prime program last year as a way to develop a future replacement for military’s workhorse aircraft, the V-22 Osprey.
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