China uses air taxi to transport coronavirus infected

Now the flying taxi EHang is undergoing accelerated tests - during the development of the first scenario, the devicewith

With medicines on board, he performed an autonomous flight from a square in the center of Hezhou to the roof of the 25-storey building of the People's Hospital.

During the test, the flying taxi covered a distance of four kilometers, flying to the hospital, and then returning to the starting point.

During testing, Edward Xu, Executive Director of EHang Strategy, was on board the device. When exactly the authorities plan to start using a flying taxi is not specified.

Previously Airbusintroducedflight model of a passenger aircraft created according to the “mixed wing” scheme. It is planned that the device will be used to develop new technologies, and not for transporting passengers.