UP: A glimpse of the country's first flying taxi seen in the Drone Festival
The range of this flying taxi will be 200 km.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the Drone Festival (Bharat Drone Mahotsav) at Pragati Maidan in Delhi on Friday. There was something special to see in this two-day-long festival. At the same time, the center of attraction among the people in this drone festival was India's first flying taxi. It is being seen as the ride of the future. It has been made by Shreya Rastogi of Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh.
Shreya Rastogi, a resident of Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, completed her aerospace engineering from the University of California, the USA in 2018. He worked to create a new spacesuit material for NASA. After this, she became part of the team that developed India's first flying taxi. Let us inform you that the ePlane company has presented a model of two-seater Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (EVTOL) at the India Drone Festival.
With the help of this, soon people in India will be able to fly by flying taxi. Let us tell you that the range of this flying taxi will be 200 km. It will be able to fly at a maximum speed of 160 kilometers per hour and will go up to a height of three thousand meters. Shreya's company ePLANE has presented a prototype of its flying electric taxi e200 at the India Drone Festival. It has two seats. One seat for the pilot and the other for the passenger. The ePlane company said that the engines of these planes are currently being worked on. Our plan is to have the first flight trial by 2023.
