If it looks like a pelican…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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