How the lessons learned from Vahana will inspire the next generation of eVTOLs at Airbus. Nearly four years after the Vahana concept was sketched on a napkin, the flagship programme that launched the ...

Project Vahana is the first planned autonomous flying vehicle from A³, the advanced projects and partnerships outpost of France-based Airbus Group. Based in Silicon Valley, ...

For Vahana, the certification process in the US is already underway. “You submit a bunch of paperwork,” Lovering says. Then there are meetings, and the witnesses at the first flight.

In Sanskrit, Vahana means "that which carries, that which pulls." After it takes off, its wings rotate, allowing it to fly like a plane. The battery powered aircraft can hit speeds of over 100 ...

Vahana, the all electric, self-piloted aircraft from A³ by Airbus, today announced the successful completion of its first full-scale flight test.

Vahana includes a parachute that automatically deploys in an emergency, saving the entire craft, and its passenger. It’s one of a handful of flying car prototypes floating around the Valley.

Airbus’ Vahana air taxi is set up for testing inside a hangar at the Pendleton Unmanned Aerial Systems Range Mission Control and Innovation Center in eastern Oregon. (Vahana Photo) Call it a ...

Airbus took one big leap toward bringing a flying taxi to the public, flying its prototype Vahana aircraft for the first time. Airbus said its full-scale aircraft made two short flights on ...

Vahana isn’t Airbus’ only play in the electric flight. The European aerospace giant announced last year that it was partnering with Rolls-Royce and Siemens on a hybrid electric aircraft ...

Airbus debuted Project Vahana earlier this year, an ambitious project designed with the specific intent of creating small, efficient vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) craft for use in dense ...

Airbus’ Vahana venture shows off video of its flying car’s first test flight in Oregon. by Alan Boyle on February 22, 2018 at 3:36 pm February 22, 2018 at 3:41 pm. Share 21 Tweet Share Reddit ...

Vahana, which took to the air on January 31 at the Pendleton, Oregon, airport, was not the first such vehicle to fly. Chinese company eHang has been flying one for months, and has even made some ...