Helicopter Firm Blade Just Got Ready for the Electrified Flying Taxi Future

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From Blade Runner to The Fifth Element to Minority Report, people have been promised flying taxis for forty years now. The only guarantee to getting in one has been to become a major movie star and then get cast in a taut thriller set in a future urban dystopia — not an easy ask.

But on Thursday everyone who isn't Harrison Ford, Bruce Willis, or Tom Cruise got closer to their turn at sci-fi reality. Swank helicopter mobility company Blade announced a small — but consequential — deal for West Coast airspace that sets the stage for flying cabs.

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Source Fool.com