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Archer's futuristic Midnight air taxi completes phase 1 flight tests
January 31, 2024Three months after its first takeoff, the production-spec Midnight air taxi has finished the first phase of flight testing. With the release of a new video, Archer says it expects to fly this next-gen machine with human pilots on board this year. -
World's first jet suit race is slated for February 28
January 29, 2024Gentlemen, start your turbines – it's time to see how these spectacular next-gen personal flight devices look and perform in the fire of competition. Gravity Industries has announced the world's first jet suit race is happening in less than a month. -
Paddle wheel ground effect vehicle accelerates as it skims the surface
January 28, 2024Things can get ugly and inefficient when a ground effect vehicle accidentally skims the water, adding significant drag that can drastically slow it down, wrench it sideways or just cost energy. One inventor is solving this problem with paddle wheels. -
Ultra-short takeoff and landing plane rakes in $8 billion in pre-orders
January 24, 2024In all the buzz around eVTOLs, there's still plenty of appetite for more conventional electric planes – especially, it seems, if they make ludicrous amounts of lift, and can take off and land at incredibly slow speeds, using absolutely tiny runways. -
Quarterhorse Mk 0 takes first steps toward breaking SR-71 speed record
January 23, 2024In a bid to outdo the world speed record of the famous Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spyplane, aerospace technology company Hermeus has completed ground testing of its first fully-integrated prototype vehicle called Quarterhorse Mark 0. -
Kawasaki's supercharged 1,000cc Ninja-copter drone lifts 440 pounds
January 22, 2024Armed with a 300-horsepower, supercharged engine from Kawasaki's fearsome H2R hyperbike, the K-Racer X1 unmanned helicopter is an absolute beast of a cargo drone, the size of a small car. Watch it lifting a national-record weight in this new video. -
Regent to debut its hydrofoiling ground-effect Seagliders in Hawai'i
January 21, 2024The remarkable Seaglider promises a clean revolution in coastal transport; the convenience of an electric boat meets the speed and comfort of an aircraft, at unparalleled efficiency and range thanks to hydrofoils and the wing-in-ground effect. -
Cryo-compressed hydrogen: A 40% aircraft range boost over liquid H2
January 17, 2024ZeroAvia is working with San Francisco startup Verne to bring an even more energy-dense form of hydrogen to the clean aviation space. Cryo-compressed H2 could reduce costs, speed up fueling, and unlock 40% more flight range than cryogenic liquid H2. -
X-59 supersonic X-plane gets rolled out by NASA and Lockheed Martin
January 12, 2024With the usual ballyhoo, NASA and Lockheed Martin have rolled out the X-59 supersonic aircraft today. In a ceremony at the famous Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, the experimental plane was introduced to the public before a party of dignitaries. -
90-seat Elysian airliner: 800-1,000-km range on batteries alone
January 11, 2024A Dutch startup says everyone's hugely underestimating the potential of battery-electric aircraft – that it's possible to build large battery-electric airliners covering distances most assume we'll need hydrogen for. Elysian plans to prove it. -
World's first liquid-hydrogen eVTOL aircraft promises 1,150-mile range
January 10, 2024The Sirius Jet will fly up to 1,150 miles (1,851 km) at speeds up to 323 mph (520 km/h) on a clean liquid-hydrogen powertrain. It'll rise vertically off a pad thanks to a deflected vectored thrust system using 20 smallish electric ducted fans. -
Supernal unveils its second-gen eVTOL air taxi at CES
January 09, 2024Hyundai's electric aircraft spinout has presented the eVTOL air taxi design it believes will "set the gold standard for Advanced Air Mobility." Supernal pulled the covers off its handsome S-A2 prototype at CES, built on a new airframe architecture. -
DARPA okays construction of X-65 plane with air jet flight controls
January 04, 2024DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale aircraft called the X-65. It will test a new technology that replaces moving control surfaces with Active Flow Control (AFC) actuators that use jets of air for control. -
Full-scale Overair Butterfly eVTOL prototype is set for first test flights
December 19, 2023eVTOLs are one of those things that many groups announce their plans to create, but fail to produce in physical form. Such is not the case with Overair's Butterfly, however, the just-unveiled prototype of which should soon begin flight testing. -
Airbus's EcoPulse aircraft makes maiden all-hybrid flight
December 14, 2023Airbus' EcoPulse hybrid-electric distributed propulsion demonstrator aircraft has completed its maiden flight using its complete powertrain of ePropellers, high-density batteries, and a turbogenerator in support of aviation's decarbonization.
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