Collaborate Disseminate
A revolutionary cryogenic tank design promises to radically boost the range of hydrogen-powered aircraft – to the point where clean, fuel-cell airliners could fly up to four times farther than comparable planes running on today’s dirty jet fuel.Continu… Continue reading Ultra-light liquid hydrogen tanks promise to make jet fuel obsolete
Innovative vertical propulsion company Cyclotech has partnered with Yamato, one of Japan’s largest delivery companies, to produce a concept for a very unique-looking mid-capacity delivery drone using Cyclotech’s thrust-vectoring propulsion system.Conti… Continue reading Cyclotech and Yamato partner up on a bizarre, tilting cargo drone
Poplar, Wisconsin is a small village, population 603 as of 2010, near the Southwest tip of Lake Superior, about an hour and a half’s drive from Minnesota. A humble place from which to start an electric aviation company, perhaps – although it does have … Continue reading Ascend Dynamics presents its Skypak V1 electric jetpack
Indiana’s Pete Bitar has quite a few pots on the boil right now. Between prototyping his LEO Coupe eVTOL “flying supercar,” developing directed energy weapons for the US Military through his XADS company, manufacturing electric ducted fans, selling hea… Continue reading Compact twin-turbine electric paraglider takes to the sky
Japanese eVTOL company SkyDrive has announced it’s going into partnership with Suzuki, as it works toward the development and full-scale production of a “compact, two-seating electric-powered flying car,” which it hopes to debut at the Osaka World Expo… Continue reading Suzuki joins SkyDrive’s push to build an eVTOL flying car by 2025
In the last few years, the electric VTOL world has been inundated with an avalanche of cash, talent and ideas – it’s been a long time since there was this much fresh energy in aviation. Companies like Joby, Lilium, Archer, Vertical Aerospace, eHang and… Continue reading Early milestones in electric VTOL history
Joby Aviation has announced an accident during flight testing of its market-leading eVTOL aircraft prototype. Flight tracking data appears to show the aircraft was being pushed over 270 mph (435 km/h), well beyond its advertised top speed of 200 mph (3… Continue reading Joby crashes one of its two eVTOL prototypes during high-speed testing
Chinese eVTOL company Autoflight has released video of its first unmanned transition flight, moving from vertical lift to wing-supported cruise at speed. The video is a perfect demonstration of the common “lift & cruise” style of eVTOL design.Continue … Continue reading Autoflight shows off its first eVTOL lift & cruise transition test
When we first covered Odys Aviation (formerly Craft Aerospace) last September, we were struck not only by the impressive figures attached to it, but by its completely unique design. Where the vast majority of eVTOL designs are two-to-five-seaters aimed… Continue reading Co-founder James Dorris explains Odys Aviation’s unique VTOL design
As is the case with cars, pure-electric aircraft may be the greenest way to go, but fuel/electric hybrids have a considerably longer range. Brazilian company Desaer’s ATL-100H will be just such a plane, utilizing both turboprop engines and electric mot… Continue reading Desaer ATL-100H hybrid aircraft mixes electric motors with turboprops