Rust to riches? Ohio city’s fortunes set to rise with flying taxi startup

Uber of the skies' Joby Aviation will build its fleet of aircraft at a $500m facility in Dayton and plans to employ 2,000 people

For a decade, Dayton in south-west Ohio has fought to shed its rust belt past. New apartment blocks, hotels and breweries have cut into a landscape dominated by derelict warehouses and general industrial decline. But today, that transformation is shifting gears and taking to the skies.

A town that 120 years ago produced the pioneers of human flight the Wright brothers is set to build hundreds of futuristic flying taxis each year.