Uber Unveils Personal Airplane Design, Plans Tests in 2020
PC Magazine|June 2017

Uber is planning an on-demand fleet of electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft that will roam cities by 2020, the company has announced.

Tom Brant
Uber Unveils Personal Airplane Design, Plans Tests in 2020

The planes are based on an existing design for the U.S. Department of Defense’s X-plane program. Made by Aurora Flight Sciences, the first plane successfully completed a flight test on April 20, and Uber hopes to have 50 of them by 2020 to test its Elevate network of on-demand planes.

“The Elevate VTOL network will help improve urban mobility around the world and transform the way we travel,” Mark Moore, Uber’s Director of Engineering, said in a statement.

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