Home Air Taxi, UAM/AAM Inside the High-Stakes Race to Build the World’s First Flying Taxi Inside the High-Stakes Race to Build the World’s First Flying Taxi 10 Nov 2019 | Air Taxi, UAM/AAMNews Inside the High-Stakes Race to Build the World’s First Flying Taxi Lilium, a German start-up, illustrates the potential and the risks of creating a new generation of electric aircraft for urban transportation.