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  Coriolis g’s passive ’tiltrotor’ transition

  4th Apr 2020

  A radical tilt engine design may simplify eVTOL system designs. Coriolis g Corps’ new approach as flight tested in their Vogi 1 model decouples the

  Categories: Aircraft, Configuration, Propulsion

  Tags: Configuration, Coriolis g, eVTOL, Propulsion, Tiltrotor

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  If it looks like a pelican…

  27th Nov 2019

  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

  Categories: Aircraft, Configuration, Public Acceptance

  Tags: Concept, Design

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  The future arithmetic of manufacturing – adding, not subtracting

  11th Nov 2019

  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

  Categories: Manufacturing, Materials, Propulsion, Structural Design

  Tags: Additive Manufacturing, Metals, Permanent Magnetic Materials, Soft Magnetic Materials

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  Astigan: a high-altitude UAV set to revolutionise the way we look at Earth

  17th Sep 2019

  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

  Categories: Aircraft, Economics, Journey Style

  Tags: Astigan, Feb 2019, HAPS, Long Endurance, Mapping, Market, Monitoring, Ordnance Survey, Surveillance, UAV

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  UKRI Future Flight Challenge launched

  7th Sep 2019

  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

  Categories: Economics, Funding, Governance, Propulsion, Public Acceptance

  Tags: Ground Facilities, System Integration, UKRI

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  Manned Electric Aircraft 2018-2028 – Hybrid & Pure Electric Technology Roadmap: IDTechEx Report

  24th Aug 2019

  Manned Electric Aircraft 2020-2030 by Dr Peter Harrop and Dr Richard Collins at IDTechEx, provides market / technology forecasts, and project appraisals on hybrid /

  Categories: Developer, Economics, Energy Generation, Energy Storage, Governance, Market, More Electric Aircraft, Propulsion

  Tags: Market Forecast, Medium, Powertrain, Regional Airliner, Regulations, Small

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  On Vertiports, Navigation Data and Facilities Planning

  16th Aug 2019

  “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

  Categories: Governance, Public Acceptance, Support

  Tags: ATC, Ground Facilities, Infrastructure, Navigation, Regulations, Urban Canyons, Vertiport

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  Vertical Aerospace Ltd, UK’s first eVTOL aircraft

  8th Aug 2019

  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

  Categories: Aircraft, Aircraft Size, Configuration

  Tags: Sep 2018, Vertical Aerospace

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  Paper: Potential environmental benefits of a hybrid RAM turboprop

  5th Aug 2019

  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

  Categories: Aircraft Electrification, More Electric Aircraft, Propulsion

  Tags: Parallel Hybrid

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  Phoenix flies using new form of propulsion – variable buoyancy

  12th Jun 2019

  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,

  Categories: Aircraft, Journey Style, Propulsion

  Tags: Drone, Long Endurance, Mar 2019, Phoenix, UAV, UHI, Variable Buoyancy Propulsion

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