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Abstract

An urban air mobility building-top skyport for landing. loading and unloading. servicing. and parking short field takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft. which includes a rotatable flight deck having at least one runway on which aircraft takeoff and land: a rotatable lower deck immediately below the flight deck and including an aircraft taxiway surrounding an enclosed central terminal with an elevator bank: and first and second aircraft ramps connecting the flight deck and the lower deck on which to taxi aircraft between the flight deck and the lower deck. A battery-swap station robotically replaces depleted batteries with fully charged batteries without the need for aircraft to cease moving at slow taxi speeds at any point during the process.

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