In its 50th test flight, Vahana's Alpha One is starting to demonstrate its tilt-wing flight capabilities. Its eight electric props point skyward for vertical takeoff and landing, then tilt forward ...

With autonomous cars already deemed a foregone conclusion, mobility companies are setting their sights on a new horizon: self-flying taxis. Last month, Uber released a white paper detailing its ...

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 ...

Airbus A³ provided a glimpse of what the interior of a future self-piloted electric air taxi cockpit could look like, showing for the first time publicly the single-screen, pilotless forward-facing ...

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 flying ...

European aerospace giant Airbus has quietly lifted the curtain on an ambitious Silicon Valley project called Vahana. It's a pilotless passenger aircraft that aims to someday add a vertical component ...

Airbus A³’s Vahana demonstrator aircraft, which has been flying since January 2018, recently completed its 100th test flight and is on track to complete its test flight portfolio by the end of 2019, ...

Vahana, the aviation startup backed by Airbus, completed the first test flight of its flying-car prototype successfully. But this first test was what you might call a baby step. The prototype, dubbed ...

Before you can zip about in a flying car, engineers must solve more than a few problems. Oddly, figuring out how to make a flying car fly isn't among them. The basics of flight were sorted out more ...

Airbus' Vahana craft has flown at a test site in Oregon. The Silicon Valley project aims to slash commuter journey times. The drone-like craft has been in development for two years. Aerospace giant ...