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JetPack Aviation CEO David Mayman says the company is in discussions with the Air Race World Championship team on starting a world-first race series in September that would see jetpack pilots competing on parallel aerial obstacle courses.Continue Readi… Continue reading Jetpack racing could join this year’s Air Race World Championship
Electrolysis is a key component of the cost of green hydrogen, and a Korean team says it’s made a huge breakthrough with an anion exchange membrane that’s not only much cheaper than current proton exchange tech, but offers some 20 percent better perfor… Continue reading “Game-changing” anode exchange membrane promises cheaper green hydrogen
Czech eVTOL startup Zuri came to our attention last year when it began hover tests of a long-range, hybrid-powered lift and cruise style aircraft. Today, the company unveiled its second-gen design, with a totally different tilting propulsion system.Con… Continue reading Zuri tilts to new propulsion system for its next-gen eVTOL air taxi
Gordon Murray has announced an “accessible” little brother for his extraordinary T.50 supercar. The new T.33 ditches some of the crazier details of the T.50, but retains that awe-inspiring Cosworth V12, even if its banshee shriek stops at 11,100 rpm.Co… Continue reading Gordon Murray channels 60s-era glamor with $1.84-million T.33 supercar
San Francisco’s Elroy Air has revealed its pre-production Chaparral C1, an autonomous VTOL lift & cruise cargo drone running on a hybrid-electric system that allows it to transport loads up to 500 lb (227 kg), in a canoe-shaped cargo tub, over distance… Continue reading Elroy Air unveils its heavy-lift, long-range, hybrid cargo VTOL
We’ve chatted with JetPack Aviation’s David Mayman many times over the years. His company’s groundbreaking work on jetpacks and flying motorcycles seems to proceed at a dizzying pace, and it’s always fascinating and enlightening to learn what’s new on … Continue reading JetPack Aviation speeds on with 2nd-gen flying motorcycle tests
KTM plans to continue its quirky expansion into the world of four-wheelers by turning its savage X-Bow GT2 racer into an Audi-powered street-legal supercar – complete with a pop-up jet-fighter style cockpit.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, Transpo… Continue reading KTM announces a street-legal supercar with a pop-up jet-fighter canopy
Joby Aviation has continued expanding the envelope on its S4 electric air taxi prototypes, and on Friday the California company registered what it believes is the fastest eVTOL test flight in history, hitting a true airspeed of 205 mph (330 km/h).
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Continue reading Joby S4 hits 205 mph, flying further and faster than any eVTOL to date
Zeva’s tail-sitting one-person eVTOL flying saucer proposes to fling its pilot head-first through the sky at high speed, encased in a stamped-composite disc body that doubles as a lift-generating wing. It’s far and away one of the strangest air taxi co… Continue reading Zeva presents the first flight video of its full-size eVTOL UFO
Bellwether has begun flight-testing its stunning Volar eVTOL flying supercar design at half scale, but the video appears to confirm our fears: all style with little substance, it appears to be a wobbly quadcopter drone with a flashy bodykit.Continue Re… Continue reading Bellwether releases profoundly uninspiring eVTOL test-flight footage