Flying Vehicles Excerpt: The Certified Personal Aerial Vehicle

My new book “Flying Vehicles” (The Emergence of Personal Air Travel, Flying Cars, and Air Taxis) is finally on sale as advanced air mobility (AAM) begins to reshape the movement of people and things around the world.

In the book, based on months of research and interviews with industry executives, we provide an in-depth and horizontal view of the new electric flying vehicle landscape.

Included are numerous discussions in a worldwide look at the role of airlines, automakers, technology companies, vertiport developers and investors, all pushing the industry ahead.

Here’s a small excerpt from the book from the chapter “PAVC, The Certified Personal Aerial Vehicle,” just one element in the wide range of flying vehicles discussed.

The following is a short taken from the chapter featuring Doroni Aerospace and an in-depth interview with founder and CEO Doron Merdinger.

From “Flying Vehicles” (The Emergence of Personal Air Travel, Flying Cars, and Air Taxis):

In the future, Merdinger expects large individual ownership of vehicles such as his.

“Just go outside and see how the kids are flying drones today. This is how it's going to shape up. And the auto pilots take control of everything else. This is how we look at it, as it's very intuitive.

The idea is that you will be able to park it in a two-car garage, and you charge it there. Then you can tow the vehicle out backwards a couple of yards and then just go vertical. Very simple. This is something that we're working on as well. It's just almost self-sustained.

You would know you're at the altitude that you want to reach, just taking off, just give you a full clearance. And you check all the systems, the system will run diagnostic by itself, you do a visual as well and then you just go up.

There are a couple of ways to fly it. One of them is with a stick, the other one is just putting in the address, which is how we're developing it as well.”