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Passenger-Carrying Drone Set To Fly In July
- Phys.Org, Tuesday, February 14, 2017 10:36 AM
Up, up and away: Dubai hopes to have a passenger-carrying drone regularly buzzing through the skyline of this futuristic city-state in July. Mattar al-Tayer, the head of Dubai's Roads & Transportation Agency, made the announcement on Monday at the World Government Summit. The drone—a Chinese-made EHang 184—is an egg-shaped craft with four legs sticking out, each with two small propellers. The rider punches in a destination on a touch screen in front of the passenger seat, then the drone would fly there automatically. The drone, which has a half-hour flight time, will be monitored remotely by a control room on the ground.
