Airbus Outpost Completes Vahana Flight Testing Written 3 December 2019
The A3 photo shows a Vahana at the company’s test flight site in Pendleton, Oregon. | Aerospace America
Aviation Week reports that “Airbus’ Silicon Valley outpost, A3 (A-cubed), has wrapped up testing on the Vahana autonomous electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) demonstrator.” As of November 14, the tilt-wing eVTOL “complet[ed] 138 flights totaling 13.4 hr.” from its site for “flight testing at Pendleton, Oregon.” The aircraft is “one of two demonstrators built,” but the other demonstrator “was completed but not flown.”
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