The ePlane Company's flying taxis are all set to take to the skies

Firm aims to bring out its first prototype by June, and then get the airworthiness certificate. Once flown, it could become Asia's first air-taxi OEM to have successfully test-driven its aircraft

On December 2021, California-based Archer Aviation announced that its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air-taxi's prototype had its first successful hover test. At the same time, a housewife in Chennai still had doubts regarding the flying taxi start-up founded in 2017 by her husband Professor Satya Chakravarthy and his student, taking a leave from his IIT Madras teaching job.

A few days later, she got the keys to a truck that aerospace engineer Chakravarthy and his partner Pranjal Mehta bought for loading a plane and doing an internal test on speed. It then dawned on her. "You guys are