Electric aircraft are breaking records and beginning to gain aviation industry interest Dully whining electric motors may soon compete with roaring turbofans in the sky as battery-powered planes and helicopters take flight. Aircraft are emerging [...]
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 [...]
The current design of the Lindbergh aircraft shows a wingspan greater than 100 feet Eighty five years ago, Charles Lindbergh became the first pilot to successfully fly from New York to Paris non-stop, claiming [...]
The GT4 is striking in outward appearance Volta Volaré has begun taking orders for its four-seater GT4 hybrid private aircraft it calls “the most technologically advanced private aircraft available anywhere on Earth.” Though the GT4 [...]
No more whirly-splat ALTHOUGH rare, engine failure is a stressful thing for a helicopter pilot to have to deal with. The pilot of a fixed-wing aircraft that loses power can at least rely on [...]
The flight lasted one and a half minutes By now, most readers are probably pretty familiar with quadracopters – small hovering unmanned electric aircraft, which get their lift from a set of four propellers. [...]
Whichever plane performed best would win its makers a prize of US$1.35 million Two years ago, aircraft designers were invited to build an electric airplane that could fly at least 200 miles (322 km) in [...]
The Matternet is a proposed internet-like network, that would allow goods such as medicine to be transported to remote communities via unmanned aerial vehicles Across Africa, along with other parts of the world, there are [...]
PC-Aero‘s single-seat Elektra One electric Ultralight is one of the most efficient transportation devices ever conceived. It’s lightweight composite construction and highly efficient aerodynamics enable it to be powered by a modest 13.5 kW electric [...]
Google has partnered with NASA to sponsor the Green Flight Challenge that offers a prize purse of $1.65 million for the design of quiet, practical and energy-efficient aircraft. Whether you view Google as a benevolent [...]
The team at Scaled Composites pulled out all the stops to realize the final design of the company’s founder and former CTO, Burt Rutan, ahead of his retirement in April earlier this year. In just [...]
Just a couple of weeks after its maiden flight at the end of May, the e-Genius electric aircraft has now winged its way into the record books – managing to stay aloft for over two [...]