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The E-Fan electric trainer airplane developed by the Airbus Group has made its first public flight. Currently a demonstrator for electric aircraft technology, Airbus says that is will be used as the basis for building a new pair of electric training aircraft models.

Last Wednesday in Paris, a 75 year-old man received an artificial heart. That in itself might not be newsworthy, however, the gadget in question was the first Carmat artificial heart to ever be implanted in a human. According to its inventor, it's the world's first self-regulating artificial heart.

Gizmag's takes a look at the highlights from the 2013 Paris Air Show, both on the ground and in the air.

EADS has once again taken to the Paris Air Show to present a vision of commercial aviation in 2050, in the form of the eConcept airplane powered with its E-Thrust hybrid electric system.

Spain's ATLANTE Unmanned Aerial System made its maiden flight at the end of February.

The European designed nEUROn Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator successfully completed its maiden flight on December 1, 2012 at Dassault Aviation’s flight test base in Istres in southern France.

The Vehicle Protection Jammer is designed to block radio signals being transmitted to roadside bombs.

Germany's DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics flew its unmanned solar-powered ELHASPA aircraft for the first time this month.

myCopter is an EU project that looks at taking vehicles off the road and launching them into the sky.

The VoltAir is a concept all-electric airliner, that could be flying within 25 years.

EADS has used the opening day of the 2011 Paris Airshow to showcase a high-speed aircraft of the future concept which contemplates speeds beyond Mach 4.

Scientists have created self-powered sensors, that could wirelessly transmit data on the status of aircraft parts upon which they were mounted.