The Navy could save approximately 300 to 400 million dollars a year With its strong dependence on gas-turbine engines for propulsion, the U.S. Navy is always looking for ways to improve the fuel consumption of [...]

  It might be possible to use linear motors for landings, too. READERS of a certain age may remember “Fireball XL5”, a children’s television programme devised by Gerry Anderson about a spacecraft of that name. [...]

The potential payoff is the ability to produce JP-5 fuel stock at sea Refueling U.S. Navy vessels, at sea and underway, is a costly endeavor in terms of logistics, time, fiscal constraints and threats to [...]

Imagine flying from New York to Tokyo in only four hours aboard a fuel-efficient supersonic jet that looks like something right out of Star Wars. Such a plane could become reality in the next two [...]

Aerofex has currently limited human flight testing to a height of 15 feet and speeds of about 30 mph A resurrected hover vehicle won’t fly through dense forests as effortlessly as the “Star Wars” speeder [...]

In-flight turbulence causes more injuries on an airplane than anything else A breakthrough piece of technology could help pilots avoid these pockets of unstable air and make for safer flights. Pilots report more than 70,000 [...]

Where Matternet is going, it doesn’t need roads. But the people there need food and medicine. And these drones can bring it to them. Nearly one billion people in rural areas live without access to [...]

Purports to be quieter, easier to maneuver, and more environmentally friendly than existing craft. Frustrated with what they see as stagnation in the evolution of hovercraft design over recent decades, cousins Michael Mercier and Chris [...]

The FanWing is arguably the first entirely new aircraft design developed within the past century. Instead of jet engines or rotors, it uses huge rotating fans embedded in its wings for both lift and propulsion. [...]

Blazing hot booming sky-spear ‘is the new Stealth’ Pentagon wild-card warboffin agency DARPA has plunged back into the hypersonics fray with a vengeance, announcing plans to build a “recoverable” rocket plane capable of Mach 20 [...]

First customer delivery of a Terrafugia Transition is expected to occur in late 2012. Six years after the initial announcement that Terrafugia, Inc. would develop a “roadable airplane,” the Transition has completed the first phase [...]