{"id":2460,"date":"2018-06-20T08:25:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T13:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2018-06-20T08:25:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T13:25:39","slug":"bell-announces-partner-for-its-urban-air-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2460","title":{"rendered":"Bell Announces Partner For Its Urban Air Taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content__segment combx\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Fort Worth-based Bell partnered with French aerospace giant Safran to help manufacture its vertical take-off and landing aircraft concept, the companies announced Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The concept, called VTOL for short, is Bell&#8217;s attempt to gain entry into the air taxi space. More than a year ago, Bell announced\u00a0it was partnering with Uber Technologies Inc. to bring the air taxi idea to life. The Uber Elevate ride-hailing service is scheduled to debut\u00a0in Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Dubai in 2020 and Bell is one of a handful of companies working with Uber to make the air taxis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Click the link below for the full story!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dallas\/news\/2018\/06\/20\/bell-safran-urban-air-taxi-vtol-safran.html?ana=yahoo&amp;yptr=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bell Uber Air Taxi<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2461\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bell-air-taxi-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"824\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bell-air-taxi-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bell-air-taxi-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bell-air-taxi-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bell-air-taxi.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth-based Bell partnered with French aerospace giant Safran to help manufacture its vertical take-off and landing aircraft concept, the companies announced Tuesday. The concept, called VTOL for short, is Bell&#8217;s attempt to gain entry into the air taxi space. More than a year ago, Bell announced\u00a0it was partnering with Uber Technologies Inc. to bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,868,1103],"tags":[539,759,766,600,340,412,712,1054,455,1197,81,1196],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-air","tag-bell","tag-dallas","tag-dubai","tag-los-angeles","tag-news","tag-safran","tag-taxi","tag-textron","tag-txt","tag-uber","tag-vtol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}