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NYC's Noisy Skies Get Electric With Beta's Demo Flight Into JFK
New York City will probably never rid itself of the thousands of helicopters heard flying around tourists and bigwigs each day, but one company is promising a quieter alternative.
On Tuesday, aerospace startup Beta Technologies Inc. is flying a fixed-wing, electric aircraft from the Hamptons to John F. Kennedy International Airport for the first time, carrying aboard executives from partner Blade Air Mobility Inc. and potential customer Republic Airways Holdings Inc.
