Tampa hosts Florida’s first air taxi test flight

Soaring above the Sheltair aircraft hangar in downtown Tampa Thursday morning, a German-made air taxi made the first-ever flight test of an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft in the state.

Volocopter's air taxis, described as a cross between helicopters and drones, can support a limited number of passengers and cargo.

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USFSP science facility faces a ‘tighter budget’

The University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus will soon house an $80 million Environmental and Oceanographic Sciences (EOS) research and teaching facility; most project details, however, remain unclear.

The state budget, signed in June, included $24.3 million for the EOS. School officials provided the expansive project’s first updates at an Oct. 30 USFSP campus board meeting.