Airbus Vahana

hana, literally "that which wears, that which draws".

Vahana, A³'s self-piloted Airbus VTOL airplane, successfully completes its first full-scale test flight.

Vahana, A by Airbus' all-electric self-propelled VTOL plane, today announces the success of its first large-scale test which reached a 5 metre altitude before sinking safety. The first 53-second long trip was completely self-flying, and the car made a second trip the following one.

The Vahana is a development in A³, Airbus' Silicon Valley field post. It is Vahana's goal to democratise the individual journey and meet the increasing demand for urbane transportation by using the latest technology in the fields of electrical drive, power management and image processing. The Vahana uses its self-controlling abilities to perform without a pilot.

Subsequent to these successfully hovering operations, the crew will undergo further tests, among them overflights and forward fly. A³ ( "A-cubed") was established in May 2015 and is the Airbus branch office in Silicon Valley. The A³ project concentrates on those that revolve around three characteristics: promptness, openness and the desire to lead to productive demonstration or demonstration on a persuasive scale. What is more, the A project is a project that is based on a combination of three elements: rapidity, openness and the desire to create productive demonstration or demonstration on a persuasive level.

Vahana Vehicle is a vehicle development program that focuses on the further development of the self-piloted VTOL electrical aircraft. A³, Airbus' progressive Silicon Valley promoter, is developing it. Please see vahana.aero for more information and join us on Twitter.

The Vahana project aims to open municipal ventilation by designing the first certificated electrical self-controlled VTOL type airliner.

The Vahana Industrial Development Company aims to open municipal ventilation by designing the first certificated electrical self-controlled VTOL type airliner. Vahana is seen by us as a cost-comparable substitute for local transport such as automobiles or locomotives. One of the basic assumptions of this is that full automatization and sense-and-avoid technologies will enable us to reach a higher level of security by reducing the number of errors made by humans while at the same time sharing the skies with more people.

Vahana as a mobile companion can be as versatile as its mobile companion when used for freight deliveries, emergencies, search missions and rescues, or even as a module deployment vehicle at catastrophe locations. There' s no other that we know of that includes so much vertically flying automated work.

Airbus' many years of experience in the areas of airplane certifications and aviation security put us in an excellent position to implement automatic wide-body flights in cities. The AlphaOne is a wide-bodied airplane that is exclusively electrical and self-controlling. While we were on our one-minute trip, the main batteries system consumed about 8% of its entire power, showing that the car can do much more.