It seems all so quiet around the Airbus eVTOL program, CityAirbus NextGen. The latest iteration
was announced during the first Airbus Summit in September 2021. Since then, Airbus has contracted Spirit AeroSystems to produce the wings, KLK Motorsport and Modell- and Formenbau Blasius Gerg for the rear structure, MAGicAll for the electric motors, and Thales and Diehl for the flight control computers.
We caught up with Balkiz Sarihan in Ottobrun during the second Airbus Summit today.
The CityAirbus NextGen prototype is scheduled to make its first test flight in late