Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 06:00:36 +0000
Elon Musk told the hosts of a Third Row Tesla and HyperChange podcast recently that he has no plans to develop an electric airplane — yet.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:30:04 +0000
Rolls-Royce is working to build the fastest single seat electric airplane of all time. To get there, it has to solve an assortment of complex engineering problems
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:30:04 +0000
Rolls Royce is working to build the fastest single seat electric airplane of all time. To get there, it has to solve an assortment of complex engineering problems
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 04:33:51 +0000
Quantum Air and OSM Aviation Group just announced an electric aircraft pilot training partnership. OSM Aviation Academy will conduct the Quantum-branded pilot training program according to FAA commercial standards. Electric urban air mobility (UAM) is taking shape one step at a time
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:31:17 +0000
A Delta flight bound for Shanghai had to make an emergency fuel dump earlier today. That fuel rained down upon Los Angeles near a school playground. Around 40 people were injured, the AJC reports
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 02:39:14 +0000
Hyundai Motor Company and Uber Elevate showed us a fairly complete urban air mobility (UAM) electric vertical takeoff & landing (eVTOL) concept vehicle, autonomous pods, and a hub ecosystem that fits with Uber Elevate’s air taxi model at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 02:59:53 +0000
Aviation Safety Resources (ASR) — a leading parachute safety company that won one of Revolution.Aero’s competitions earlier this year — says it has a parachute system that will work with eVTOL aircraft, even at low altitudes. I recently spoke with Larry Williams, CEO of ASR, on how the company’s parachute technology works, its application for eVTOL aircraft, and public perception
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 01:04:16 +0000
Here’s more urban air mobility (UAM) electric vertical takeoff & landing (eVTOL) and electric fixed-wing aircraft news for the last week of
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 04:35:12 +0000
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, aviation is not only undergoing its third revolution, with electricity this time, but history was made on Tuesday, December 10, in Vancouver, Canada, when Harbour Air took off in a seaplane using electricity. The maiden electric seaplane flight is a sweet wink at commercial aviation history, which started with seaplanes
Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 04:57:44 +0000
The Munich-based aviation startup Lilium Jet has been busy and recently released a video of its successful 3-minute test flight on October 1st. Lilium tested controllability with banked turns in transition flight needed before certification and commercialization