Airbus has announced in the last hours that it has managed to complete the first test of its project known under the name of ‘Vahana,’. That is the first autonomous flying car. The tests were conducted on January 31, and in them, the flying vehicle of the French company worked usually.
Vahana airbus: New Fantasy?
Far from resembling a car, the Vahana of the French aerospace company is a ‘VTOL’ ( Vertical Take-Off and Landing, for its acronym in English). That is designed for commercial trips. That is able to take off from a helipad and fly autonomously to another platform. Where you can collect your passengers. In the test performed, the vehicle was able to rise to a modest height of about five meters. After which the autopilot began to maneuver lightly with the aircraft for 53 seconds.
The test vehicle in question, dubbed Alpha One. That has dimensions of 6.3 meters wide, about 5.7 meters long and 3 meters high while weighing about 745 kilograms. But after some delay, including a transfer from the center located in California to the base of Oregon. Airbus hopes to have a fully operational Vahana by 2020. We will wait for more news on it.
via: theverge