Category: Structural 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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  Structural batteries power a flight for twice as long

  7th May 2019

  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

  Categories: Aircraft Electrification, Energy Storage, Structural Design

  Tags: Case Western Reserve University, Drone, Feb 2019, Structural Batteries

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  Pop.Up Next – Airbus & Audi’s modular car / plane

  16th Jan 2019

  Audi, Italdesign and Airbus combine a passenger pod, a self-driving car and a drone aircraft. The Pop.Up Next concept is that the passengers will step

  Categories: Aircraft, Aircraft Size, Journey Style, Structural Design, Support

  Tags: Airbus, Audi, Multi-Rotor, Point-to-Point, Small, Urban Air Mobility

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  NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative

  2nd Nov 2018

  NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative began in October 2016. A 10 year “acceleration for advanced technologies testing”, New Aviation Horizons (NAH) plans to build a

  Categories: Aircraft, Aircraft Electrification, Configuration, Governance, Propulsion, Structural Design

  Tags: FAA, Government, NASA, Oct 2016, Regulations, Research

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  AgustaWestland Project Zero

  3rd Oct 2018

  AgustaWestland Project Zero is a project from the helicopter manufacturer’s Advanced Concepts Group exploring a tilt-rotor drone configuration. After a 6 month development involving several virtual

  Categories: Aircraft, Aircraft Size, Configuration, Developer, Energy Generation, More Electric Aircraft, Structural Design

  Tags: AgustaWestland, Autonomous, Drone, Jun 2011, On Board Generation, Project Zero, Small, Tilt-Rotor

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  Misconceptions of Electric Propulsion Aircraft and Their Emergent Aviation Markets

  24th Sep 2018

  Published in 2014, this paper by Mark D. Moore and Bill Fredericks, both of NASA, outlines key misunderstandings about the integration of electric propulsion in

  Categories: Aircraft, Aircraft Electrification, Energy Distribution, Energy Storage, Market, Propulsion, Structural Design

  Tags: Aerodynamics, NASA, Power System, Research Agency

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  Lilium’s eVTOL jet

  11th Sep 2018

  Lilium has test flown the world’s first all-electric vertical take-off and landing jet, as a demonstrator of their concept of an air taxi service using

  Categories: Aircraft, Aircraft Size, Configuration, Structural Design

  Tags: Lilium, Small, Tilt-Rotor, Urban Air Mobility

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  Aston Martin reveals Volante Vision – an “exploration into personal air mobility”

  8th Sep 2018

  Aston Martin threw its hat into the electric aircraft ring at the Farnborough Airshow 2018 with its Volante Vision. Revealing few details, and being coy

  Categories: Aircraft, Aircraft Size, Configuration, Journey Style, Structural Design

  Tags: Aston Martin, Cranfield University, Jun 2018, Point-to-Point, Rolls Royce, Small, Tilt-Rotor, Urban Air Mobility, Volante Vision, VTOL

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