Airbus UAM CEO Balkiz Sarihan tells Aviation Week the CityAirbus NextGen full-scale eVTOL prototype is on track to make its first flight before year-end.
Airbus must deliver just over 320 aircraft in the last three months of the year in order to reach its target of handing over around 770 aircraft to customers in 2024.
The partners aim to “build a circular economy in space” in which space junk and expired satellites can be recycled and manufactured into new spacecraft.
Airbus launched the A330neo at the 2014 edition of Farnborough Airshow. A decade on, the program could secure more than the 100 gross orders it received that year.