New video shows Airbus continuing flight testing on its CityAirbus eVTOL

Video footage shared by Air­bus Heli­copters CEO Bruno Even has shown the com­pa­ny’s CityAir­bus eVTOL demon­stra­tor has resumed flight test­ing.

The minute-long clip — which was shared via Twit­ter — showed flight test employ­ees car­ry­ing out the test at the com­pa­ny’s facil­i­ty in Donauwörth, Ger­many — all while wear­ing face masks as a pre­cau­tion due to Covid-19 restric­tions.

Despite the demon­stra­tor fly­ing only a few feet off the ground, it’s very much busi­ness as usu­al for the aero­space giant, espe­cial­ly as the virus threat­ened to have a seri­ous impact on its oper­a­tions ear­li­er this year.

But despite this, the aero­space giant said at the time that it remains com­mit­ted to its eVTOL pro­gramme, say­ing that it ‘con­sid­ers new forms of air trans­port such as urban air mobil­i­ty as an oppor­tu­ni­ty to devel­op key tech­nolo­gies for the future of VTOL plat­forms, includ­ing elec­tric flight and auton­o­my’.

You can watch the video by click­ing on the play but­ton below.

Glad to see the progress made by @AirbusHeli’s #CityAir­bus demon­stra­tor. A key ele­ment in our inno­va­tion roadmap in order to devel­op the tech­no-bricks nec­es­sary for achiev­ing sus­tain­able avi­a­tion. pic.twitter.com/ufelaO6iFm

— Bruno Even (@BrunoEven) June 17, 2020