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Why The Pentagon Struggles With The Dark Side of Electric Aviation

November 7, 2024 admin Aviation, clean transport, DRONES, Electric vehicles, evtol, Military, US military, vtol

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:26:57 +0000

It’s easy to think that electric aviation is something that’s happening tomorrow. Air taxis, eVTOL craft, rescue pods, aerial ambulances, and such are coming in the near future. Full-on cargo and passenger airliners might happen later when battery technology improves, but, as I’ve explained before, electric aviation is already here! … [continued]

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Toyota Puts Nearly $1 Billion Into Electric Aviation Startup

October 10, 2024 admin clean transport, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, electric cars, Electric vehicles, joby, toyota, vtol

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:57:13 +0000

Electric aviation is a fascinating topic. And when we talk about electric aviation, we’re typically talking about vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft of course. There’s been a lot of interest and hype around electric VTOL aircraft for the past several years, but no one’s really using them yet — … [continued]

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Archer Gets Two Big Orders For Its Electric Aircraft

August 20, 2024 admin air force (usaf), archer, archer aviation, Aviation, clean transport, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, Electric vehicles, evtol, us air force, vtol

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 03:57:57 +0000

I wrote the other day about Archer Aviation preparing for electric air taxi service in Los Angeles and San Francisco for the 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Olympics. A month prior, we wrote about Stellantis (the giant automaker) investing $55 million into Archer. But news from Archer is moving … [continued]

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Electric Air Taxis for 2026 World Cup & 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles?

August 17, 2024 admin archer, archer aviation, Aviation, California, clean transport, Electric vehicles, evtol, fifa-world-cup, Los Angeles, olympics, vtol, world cup

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 21:53:40 +0000

With the 2024 Olympics over, those of us into this kind of thing are now eager for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Aside from all the sporting fun and the way the Olympics can bring countries together, one good thing about the Olympics is how it can help usher … [continued]

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Lilium Logging More Electric Jet Sales

August 12, 2024 admin Aviation, clean transport, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, Electric vehicles, england, evtol, lilium, lilium jet, london, uk, vtol

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 19:15:05 +0000

Lilium is one of the leaders in the electric aircraft industry, or more specifically the early electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) market. It seems to have one of the more appealing and practical aircraft designs, and it is breaking through barriers (or I should say, flying over barriers) quicker. … [continued]

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ASR Says It Has A Parachute For Every eVTOL Aircraft

January 4, 2020 admin autonomous vehicles, Aviation, aviation safety, aviation safety resources, clean transport, electric airplanes, electric aviation, electric vertical takeoff and landing, evtol, light sport aircraft, parachutes, Safety, tethered rockets, uam, university of michigan, unmanned aerial systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, urban air mobility, vtol

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

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eVTOL Aircraft Developers Will Meet At The World’s Transformative Vertical Flight 2020 Conference

December 11, 2019 admin aeromechanics, air quality, airplanes, autonomous vehicles, Aviation, bell, cars, clean transport, ectol, electric airplanes, electric bikes, electric cars, electric conventional takeoff and landing, electric v, Electric vehicles, electric vertical takeoff and landing, evtol, evtol symposium, faa, Federal Aviation Administration, fvl, honeywell, INTERVIEWS, iplc, Lockheed Martin, nasa, research, SCIENCE, the aeromechanics for advanced vertical flight technical meeting, the international powered lift conference, the vertical flight society, the white house office of science & technology policy, the world's transformative vertical flight 2020, uam, Uber, urban air mobility, us army future vertical lift, vfs, vtol

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:00:53 +0000

January is always a tough month for us, with CES kicking off less than a week after New Year’s Eve, and now the Transformative Vertical Flight 2020 Conference is two weeks later

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Is Kitty Hawk Introducing Range Anxiety For eVTOL Aircraft With Its Heaviside?

October 13, 2019 admin aircraft, airliners, airplanes, alphabet moonshot factory, autonomous vehicles, Aviation, clean transport, Cora, ectol, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, electric conventional take-off and landing, Electric vehicles, electric vertical take-off and landing, evtol, flyer, heaviside, hvsd, kitty hawk, sebastian thrun ceo kitty hawk, turbo fans, uam, urban air mobility, volocopter, vtol, wing-span, x co-founder

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 03:50:50 +0000

We finally heard about Kitty Hawk’s “secret project,” which sports the strange name of Heaviside. It introduces the notion of range for an electric vertical take-off & landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The demonstration of the aircraft flying is fantastic but I wonder if we’re about to witness another “range anxiety” war between eVTOL manufacturers? Let’s hope not

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Embraer Goes From Airplanes To Business Jets To Electric Planes & VTOL Aircraft

August 26, 2019 admin air taxis, autonomous vehicles, Aviation, clean transport, collins aerospace, dreammaker, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, electric aviation, electric flight, Electric vehicles, embraer, embraer emb 202 ipanema, embraerx, evtol, jaunt, parker aerospace, uam, uber elevate, urban air mobility, vtol, weg

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 01:00:06 +0000

The Embraer fixed-wing, single-engine electric demonstrator aircraft might not look like your vision of our urban air mobility (UAM) future, but its electric conventional takeoff & landing (eCTOL) design makes it a perfect testbed. Let’s look at what Embraer is testing with the single-wing e