“Flying Taxi Fashionistas are in for a UAM treat!”

It is already hap­pen­ing!

A U.S online cloth­ing com­pa­ny has jumped the eVTOL start­ing gun and begun sell­ing T‑shirts adver­tis­ing the joys of fly­ing in elec­tric air taxis.

The com­pa­ny, Zaz­zle, is based in Palm Beach, Flori­da. At present, there are 420 dif­fer­ent T‑shirt designs for sale under the name ‘NeedAir­Taxi’, each cost­ing between USD24 and USD25. In fact, there is a 15 per­cent sale on, so now’s the time to buy that futurist’s memen­to.

https://www.zazzle.com/store/needairtaxi/products

While inter­view­ing Julien Mon­tousse last year, Head Design­er for Archer Avi­a­tion, and respon­si­ble, along­side his Team, for cre­at­ing the mag­nif­i­cent-look­ing Mid­night Air­craft, he explained an impor­tant part of the company’s future mar­ket­ing strat­e­gy will be based around cre­at­ing mer­chan­dise for the pub­lic.

From toys to T‑shirts, bags and back­packs, to mugs and key­chains, Mon­tousse points out, “Mod­els and com­mem­o­ra­tive pieces can remind pas­sen­gers of their flight expe­ri­ence and inspire the younger gen­er­a­tion to become eVTOL pilots in the future.”

This sen­ti­ment echoes air travel’s “gold­en age” of the 1950s and 1960s, when Air­line com­pa­nies either gave away or sold a wide range of mer­chan­dise to their fly­ing cus­tomers. Today, some of these ear­ly prod­ucts have become very col­lectible and fetch high prices.

TWA’s Mer­chan­dise Cat­a­logue for 1970 (Cred­it: https://www.grayflannelsuit.net)

So, go on, have some fun and begin wear­ing the future of avi­a­tion.

(Images: Zaz­zle)

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