Opinion I’ve been lucky enough to learn from some very experienced engineers in my career. One of the first tried to teach me technical drawing
It’s 2035, and you’re a mechanic on the Russian steppe holding the mangled end cap from an electric lift motor; the pilot of your 10
The UK’s Ordnance Survey and a team of aeronautic engineers are developing a solar powered, high altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) UAV, with aims of changing
The UK government research agency, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), are launching the Future Flight Challenge. The programme’s ambitious aim is to develop systems to
Manned Electric Aircraft 2020-2030 by Dr Peter Harrop and Dr Richard Collins at IDTechEx, provides market / technology forecasts, and project appraisals on hybrid /
“Infrastructure should not try to kill you if you blink. They should be forgiving.” Rex Alexander, Five-Alpha LLC As part of a VFS panel at
In September 2018 Vertical Aerospace Ltd revealed it had flown the UK’s first full-scale eVTOL aircraft. Having flown the aircraft several times, the Bristol based
A 2017 paper “Analysis and design of hybrid electric regional turboprop aircraft” investigates the potential environmental benefits of hybrid electric regional turboprop aircraft in terms
On Thursday 21st March 2019, the world’s first large variable buoyancy powered (VBP) aircraft was test flown successfully. The 15m-long, 10.5m wingspan autonomous UAV, Phoenix,
A structural battery powered drone has almost doubled its endurance in recent flight tests. A news piece from Case Western Reserve University announces the successful
