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Uber Unveils Personal Airplane Design, Plans Tests in 2020

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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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