New York City Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a plan to establish the world’s first heliport with infrastructure for electric helicopters.
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00:10 We were able to tune the acoustic signature such that it can.
00:22 >> Our investment in this technology and the use of this technology is going to
00:26 allow us to have cleaner skies and stay true to our mission that we stated all
00:31 the time.
00:32 Here at the downtown Manhattan L Heliport, we are going to establish the world's
00:37 first heliport with infrastructure for
00:42 electric powered helicopters of this nature.
00:47 First, the first one in this country and
00:51 we're gonna reimagine the assets as a new hub for sustainable transportation.
00:57 >> [APPLAUSE] >> Within our lifetime,
01:01 many of you are going to own your own personal electric helicopter.
01:07 I mean, this is just unbelievable when you think about it.
01:10 It's no different than a joystick on a video game.
01:13 The partnership with the companies to allowing our young people to use it now
01:18 in schools, we're going to have to build out mechanics.
01:22 We're going to build our operators.
01:24 We're going to build out who's going to build these helicopters.
01:28 The pipeline is just unbelievable what we're about to accomplish in this city.