CityAirbus eVTOL arrives in Manching ahead of further flight testing

Air­bus’ CityAir­bus eVTOL has been moved to its test devel­op­ment cen­tre in Manch­ing, where the air­craft will con­tin­ue its flight test­ing pro­gramme.

The 37-mile jour­ney from Donau­worth was made yes­ter­day (Mon­day), and will now allow Air­bus to test the CityAir­bus at much high­er speeds and for longer dis­tances. Local media in Manch­ing also got a close-up view of the CityAir­bus once it arrived.

Ear­li­er this year, the air­craft com­plet­ed its first autonomous flight in Donau­worth and Bavar­i­an Prime Min­is­ter Markus Soder also paid a vis­it to the facil­i­ty — where he also saw the air­craft hov­er in the air.

CityAir­bus is an all-elec­tric, four-seat, mul­ti­copter vehi­cle demon­stra­tor that focus­es on advanc­ing remote­ly pilot­ed elec­tric ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing (eVTOL) flight. The CityAir­bus full-scale demon­stra­tor con­duct­ed its first take-off in May 2019.

It is the sec­ond eVTOL con­cept by the aero­space giant, fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of its Vahana project last year — after 138 test flights.