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A year after it was pronounced airworthy by the FAA, and 14 years after it was first announced, the Samson Sky Switchblade is officially off the ground. This street-legal three-wheeler converts to a 200-mph (320-km/h) airplane at the touch of a button…. Continue reading Samson Switchblade: First flight for fold-out flying car
Pterodynamics has taken its unique and fascinating Transwing drone out for sea trials with the US Navy, demonstrating its ability to land autonomously on a moving target. Its dihedral folding wings give it exceptional range and cargo capacity.Continue … Continue reading Unique 13-foot transforming drone nails moving target in Navy trials
London startup Lyte Aviation is thinking big when it comes to VTOL aircraft. Forget your piddly five-seaters, Lyte says its first aircraft will be a 44-seat monster with a 300-km/h (186-mph) top speed and a range over 1,000 km (620 miles).Continue Read… Continue reading Lyte Aviation’s 44-seat SkyBus: VTOLs as public transport
Electric motors don’t much care whether they’re going forwards or backwards – certainly not as much as passengers tend to. So the latest Guinness World Record for Rimac’s electric Nevera hypercar is the fastest speed ever recorded in reverse.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Rimac Automobili, World Records, World’s Fastest, Crazy, Hypercar
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It looks nothing like a typical “fan on a stick” wind turbine, but this oval track with evenly spaced wing blades could be an enormously disruptive addition to the renewable energy mix, since it slashes the cost of wind power to unprecedented lows.Cont… Continue reading Bill Gates backs novel device promising wind energy at 1/3 the cost
Ducati has a new motorbike, and it’s celebrating this fact with a series of photos and videos so flagrantly ribald and saucy they’d be pixelated out in Japan. I mean, look at them. In fact, forget the bike, can I buy some of this guy’s talent?Continue … Continue reading Ye gods, the new Ducati 698 Mono does wheelies and powerslides for you
Ducati has a new motorbike, and it’s celebrating this fact with a series of photos and videos so flagrantly ribald and saucy they’d be pixelated out in Japan. I mean, look at them. In fact, forget the bike, can I buy some of this guy’s talent?Continue … Continue reading Ye gods, the new Ducati 698 Mono does wheelies and powerslides for you
To build or maintain today’s colossal wind turbine towers, you either need an absolute monster of a crane – or something like this. The KoalaLifter self-climbing crane is quick, compact, handles heavy loads and creeps up turbine towers of any height.Co… Continue reading Climbing crane shimmies up turbine towers like a kid up a coconut tree
To build or maintain today’s colossal wind turbine towers, you either need an absolute monster of a crane – or something like this. The KoalaLifter self-climbing crane is quick, compact, handles heavy loads and creeps up turbine towers of any height.Co… Continue reading Climbing crane shimmies up turbine towers like a kid up a coconut tree
A wildly innovative turbine that could halve the cost of offshore wind is set to go into testing in Norway. The 19-m (62-ft), 30-kW, contra-rotating vertical-axis turbine is a prototype of a design that could scale to unprecedented size and power.Conti… Continue reading Extraordinary contra-rotating floating wind turbines to begin testing