In November 2022, Dominique Lazarski stood among a small crowd of people on the Pontoise airfield near Paris, watching a flying taxi trace wide circles in a clear blue sky, after taking off for the first time from a working vertiport in France. Airborne, the vehicle looked like a giant quadcopter; its rotors spinning rapidly to keep a small taxi cab airborne. Yet Lazarski, who lives in the city part time, was only thinking about the whirring sound coming from above her head. “I thought it was quite, quite noisy,” she remembers.
What Lazarski—who is president of ADERA, a group
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