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Take the body of a small plane with stubby wings. Replace the wheels with heavy-duty helicopter skids, add four buzzing dronelike electric fans to each one, and you’ll have something like Boeing’s prototype flying taxi. It’s a slightly ungainly-looking setup for a flying machine, which are usually sleek and streamlined, …

I had hoped for a Christmas where the main stories about drones would be fun ones. You know, the ones where you’re allowed a little bit of schadenfreude as people have to climb a tree on Christmas Day to retrieve newly unpacked presents. Alas, it has not been that kind …

Flying taxis and different futuristic passenger automobiles are about to take a large leap out of science fiction and into actuality. It’s not precisely the imaginative and prescient of the “Back To The Future” movie trilogy, which predicted that by 2015 we’d fill the skies with flying automobiles and get …