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Hybrid aircraft. Airbus named new flying car project

Paris, France - It will be Vahana and the flight tests of the first prototype will begin at the end of 2017

Hindus have welcomed naming of Airbus Group’s new project of aircraft-flying car for individual passenger and cargo transport, named as Vahana in a Sanskrit word translated as vehicle or carrier. A word that prominently figures in ancient texts Puranas and is associated with many deities. The new hydrid that the company defined as “Future of urban mobility” aimed to resolve the congestion problem of th...

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Rome, Italy, 10/25/2016 13:53
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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