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Air One Personal eVTOL Aircraft Achieves First Hover Test
The prototype starts test flights in northern Israel on June 21 as part of plans to bring the personal eVTOL vehicle to market in 2024.
The Air One personal eVTOL completed its first hover tests over Israel in June 2022.
The Air One personal eVTOL completed its first hover tests over Israel in June 2022. (Credit: Air)

Air has successfully flown the first hover tests of its new personal eVTOL aircraft, Air One, the Israel-based startup announced on July 12.

The full-scale Air One prototype took off above the fields of Megiddo in northern Israel on June 21. It completed several unpiloted hover tests throughout the day and during the following two weeks, in which the aircraft lifted off, hovered, and returned to the ground safely, the company said.