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Flying taxi trials to take off in Nusantara on July, authority says
The flying taxi, manufactured by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute and Hyundai Motors Company, is set to be showcased during the Independence Day ceremony in August.
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The Optionally Piloted Personal/Passenger Air Vehicle (OPPAV) flying taxi, manufactured by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute and Hyundai Motors Company, is seen in this undated photo. A fleet of these taxis is plannned to be the future transportation method in the new capital city of Nusantara. (Korea Aerospace Research Institute/-)
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he Nusantara Capital City (IKN) Authority is set to begin trialing flying taxis in July, which it envisions as the future transportation of the planned new capital in East Kalimantan, following a shipment of a South Korean air vehicle to the neighboring city of Balikpapan on May 9.
The Optionally Piloted Personal/Passenger Air Vehicle (OPPAV) flying taxi is manufactured by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and Hyundai Motors Company (HMC).
The government has set its Independence Day celebration to be held in Nusantara on Aug. 17 and plans to showcase the flying taxi during the ceremony.
“We will open [the cargo] next week to assemble it, then we can test it,” IKN Authority head Bambang Susantono said in a statement on Wednesday.
The arrival follows a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the IKN Authority and Hyundai to develop an Advanced Air Mobility ecosystem in Indonesia during the Business 20 (B20) Summit in 2022.
“We will test it first and then evaluate the results to determine whether it performs well or not. We will conduct a technical evaluation of the performance, and I hope our academic colleagues can be involved in the process,” Bambang explained.
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