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Feb 2021
27m 3s

(Finally) welcoming the flying car

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The future is now! Flying cars to hit the road (and skies) by 2022. Tune in to this episode of the World of Aviation Podcast, where host Adam Thorn, joined in studio by reporter Hannah Dowling, shares the details of the FAA’s mammoth decision to certify a hybrid flying car for personal use. The team also discusses Boeing’s ‘mixed bag’ of a week, including over 200 Dreamliners grounded for defect inspections and the UAE lifting its MAX ban. Also explored is the end of the Bombardier Learjet after more than six decades of production, and the ongoing non-COVID crisis facing the aviation industry: the environmental crisis.

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