RIVERSIDE, Ohio – At the National Museum of the United States Air Force here, northeast of Dayton, throngs of visitors stream through the Wright brothers exhibit while, just a few miles away, workers prepare factories for a new era of aviation: electric air taxis.
More than a century after Wilbur and Orville Wright built America’s first airplane factory in Dayton in 1910, the city known as the birthplace of aviation is positioning itself at the forefront of another aerospace revolution.
California-based Joby Aviation Inc. is preparing to mass-produce electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs, in Dayton, underscoring aviation’s enduring place in the nation’s identity as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary…