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Cape Canaveral’s Space Perspective has officially started selling tickets for the highest balloon ride of them all: a six-hour floating journey to the edge of space, where you can watch the sunrise. At US$125,000 a seat, flights start in 2024.Continue … Continue reading Roll up, roll up! Get your tickets for the great space balloon ride
Montreal’s Alexandru Duru first flew his electric multirotor hoverboard back in 2015, and quickly set a Guinness World Record for distance. Now this levitating madman is working to commercialize it for sale, while performing stunt shows on the side.Con… Continue reading Omni Hoverboard takes a super-simple approach to personal flight
French company Hopium has wasted no time getting a prototype up and running. The company announced its intentions to build high-performance hydrogen cars in October 2020, and has now shown video of its Alpha 0 car on a test track hitting 200 km/h (124 … Continue reading Hopium rolls out a prototype of its handsome hydrogen-powered sedan
Lava Music has attempted to push the acoustic guitar into uncharted territory with the Me 2. Its smooth one-piece body and honeycomb-reinforced soundboard are made from super-strong, super-lightweight injection-molded carbon fiber, for starters, giving… Continue reading Review: Lava’s Me 2 carbon fiber guitar is a next-gen surprise package
Russia’s Foundation for Advanced Research has already flown a 60-kg (132-lb) prototype of its Cyclocar VTOL aircraft, which uses a super-responsive cyclical propeller propulsion system. A full-size, long-range, six-seat Cyclocar is expected to fly in 2… Continue reading Russia has flown prototypes of its six-seat hybrid VTOL Cyclocar
This graphene-based aerogel is the lightest sound insulation material ever manufactured, say researchers at the University of Bath, who have demonstrated its ability to damp down noise by up to 16 decibels despite weighing just 2.1 kg per cubic meter (… Continue reading World’s lightest sound insulator could radically reduce jet engine noise
eVTOLS, or electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, are a hot topic at the moment. Dozens, even hundreds of companies are working at fever pitch to create the new class of clean, quiet, cheap air taxi that many believe will fundamentally transfo… Continue reading Flying bus: Braeden Kelekona elaborates on his staggering 40-seat eVTOL
UK company Vertical Aerospace (VA) is going public through a SPAC, with backing from Microsoft, American Airlines, Avolon, Honeywell and Rolls-Royce and a bulging US$4 billion-dollar preorder book for as many as 1,000 of its VA-X4 eVTOL air taxis.Conti… Continue reading Vertical Aerospace goes public, boasting record eVTOL pre-sales
XTI Aircraft is moving toward production of the “fastest and longest-range VTOL in the world,” with certification and the start of full-scale production expected by the end of 2024. The Trifan 600 will fly up to eight passengers helipad to helipad at r… Continue reading Trifan 600 long-range, high-speed hybrid VTOL promises takeoff in 2024
XTI Aircraft is moving toward production of the “fastest and longest-range VTOL in the world,” with certification and the start of full-scale production expected by the end of 2024. The Trifan 600 will fly up to eight passengers helipad to helipad at r… Continue reading Trifan 600 long-range, high-speed hybrid VTOL promises takeoff in 2024