Airbus showcased its brand-new Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality (Thor) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) at Berlin's ILA 2016, Wednesday.<br /><br />Detlef Konigorski, head of the Airbus Thor programme explained that the aircraft is designed "for concepts bearing a high technical risk" adding that "the material cost for the printing amounted to €25,000 ($27,976)". He added that "drones usually costs hundreds of thousands or even millions, which nobody will provide you with to make a potential belly landing. If it crashed, we can brush it off the runway. Within four weeks we will print a new one". <br /><br />Airbus created the first airplane in the world produced on a 3D printer. The first test for the aircraft was conducted in November 2015, when the plane flew 40km (24,8 mi)<br /><br />COURTESY: RT's RUPTLY video agency, NO RE-UPLOAD, NO REUSE - FOR LICENSING, PLEASE, CONTACT http://ruptly.tv<br /><br />RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air<br /><br />Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday<br /><br />Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews<br />Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com<br />Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/rt<br />Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT<br />Listen to us on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rttv<br /><br />RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.
