Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Lifts Off in Electric Air Taxi

Photo: The Beta Technologies ALIA CX300, an all-electric conventional takeoff and landing aircraft. Photo courtesy of BETA Technologies. Article by Jack Daleo. FLYING Magazine – June 1, 2026.

“This is not the Jetsons,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a new video capturing his flight on Beta Technologies’ Alia eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft. “This is actual real life.” Duffy on Friday became the first transportation secretary to fly in an eVTOL aircraft, the Transportation Department said Monday. Duffy called the sortie a “historic flight into the future” and said eVTOL models will “fundamentally change the way people and products move.” […]

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