The magical kingdom of Dubai continues to cement its dual reputations as both the world’s most future-forward city, and the most desperate for attention, with the announcement that it plans to add quadcopter-style hoverbikes to its police fleet.
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Scaled Composites Model 401 experimental plane has completed its maiden flight. The aircraft took to the air on Wednesday as part of a program to demonstrate the company's advanced, low-cost manufacturing techniques.
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At this week's NBAA Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas, Bombardier Business Aircraft took the wraps off the latest flight prototype of its Global 7000 aircraft. Dubbed the "Architect," the fourth flight test vehicle is the first to make a public debut and the first fitted with a cabin interior.
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Bell Helicopter's V-280 Valor has reached 100 percent rotor RPMs during a tethered ground run test. The tiltrotor, which is capable of reaching twice the speed and range of present helicopters, is expected to make its first flight later this year.
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Spike Aerospace took to the skies for the first time on Saturday as it tested a subsonic, subscale version of its planned S-512 supersonic passenger plane. The unmanned SX-1.2 made the first of a series of seven short flights to prove the validity of the aircraft's aerodynamics.
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Boeing has been in the aviation game for over a century, but its recent moves suggest it won't be resting on its laurels. Following the launch of a US$2 million personal flying machine contest, it will acquire Aurora Flight Sciences, a company enlisted in to work on Uber's flying taxi project.
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What do you get when you cross a plane with a blimp? A Plimp. That's not a joke, it's what the thing is actually called. The unmanned aircraft has a helium-filled envelope allowing for blimp-like buoyancy, while its winged rigid body allows it to travel quick-ish like a conventional drone.
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Here at New Atlas we love a good hoverbike. So when Kalashnikov, the Russian weapons manufacturer best known for its infamous AK-47 assault rifle, released a video demonstrating a strange hoverbike prototype it certainly piqued our interest.
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The field of flying taxis is one that is starting to fill up. Joining the likes of the Ehang 184 and Volocopter is the newly announced Passenger Drone, which is built to help usher in an era of personal aerial transportation by autonomously carrying people from point A to point B.
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While a number of inventors have brought the idea of a jetpack closer to reality, personal flight remains a dream for most of us. Boeing has had enough of the dreaming, and is putting up US$2 million in prize money to encourage bright ideas around building an easy-to-use personal flying device.
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