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Airbus Group CTO Jean Botti leaves the company

Will pursue new career opportunity outside aerospace after successful decade as CTO Jean Botti climbed the ranks of the aviation industry as the “father of electric flight” Succession is subject to a comprehensive review of the Group’s innovation, R&T set-up … Read the full press release

Airbus Group’s E-Fan technology demonstrator became the world’s first all-electric two engine aircraft taking off by its own power to successfully cross the Channel

Calais, 13-7-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Airbus Group’s E-Fan technology demonstrator today became the world’s first all-electric two engine aircraft taking off by its own power to successfully cross the Channel, some 106 years after Louis Blériot’s epic flight. The E-Fan’s … Read the full press release

Airbus Group’s all-electric E-Fan technology demonstrator aircraft prepares for its Channel crossing this Friday, 10 July

Bordeaux, 8-7-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Airbus Group’s all-electric E-Fan technology demonstrator aircraft is being readied for its Channel crossing this Friday, 10 July. The aircraft will soon be on its way from France’s Aquitaine region to the starting point of … Read the full press release