The brief history of short-hop commute pioneer Chicago Helicopter Airways

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Today, companies like Uber and Hyundai or United Airlines and Archer are working to get fleets of VTOL aircraft to serve as short-hop air taxis, ferrying travelers from city centers to airports while avoiding the mess and hassle of ground-based traffic. In the ‘60s companies like Chicago Helicopter Airways (CHA) just used a bunch of repurposed US Navy helicopters whose rotors almost never catastrophically failed. Almost.

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