The era of personal drones is fast becoming a reality and Hexa personal drone by LIFT Aircraft is at the forefront of this revolution in personal aviation. Hexa is an electric, remotely piloted, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that can carry only one passenger. On April 4th, the drone took to the skies over ...
Remember the famous Jetsons flying cars? One thing we can remember was that they were unlike any of the flying cars we see emerging today that have ducted fans and rotating blades. However, a Washington based startup Jetoptera has created a flying car more in line with the Jetsons flying cars that has no ducted fans ...
Midnight model unveiled by Archer Aviation promises to revolutionize the way we fly when it takes to the skies in 2024. The way we travel today is set to drastically change in the coming decade with the advent of multiple eVTOL platforms being developed by a litany of companies across the world. Archer's Aviation ...
Wisk Aero an aviation company created in 2019 as a joint venture between the now defunct Kitty Hawk and Boeing Corporation aims to be the first company to develop a semi-autonomous eVTOL for urban air taxi services. The all-electric eVTOL will be able to carry four passengers and take off and land completely on ...
One thing is for certain, the design of electric aircrafts made possible by quantum leaps in battery technology is becoming weirder by the year. The Zeva Aero Z2 is the latest weird addition to this long list of eVTOL aerial vehicles that we only saw in sci-fi movies just a couple of years ago.
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Horizon Aircraft Cavorite X5 has been turning heads ever since it unveiling last year. The Toronto-base company unveiled this extraordinary looking eVTOL to an industry getting accustomed to smooth lines and body contours. The aircraft which looks like something out of a transformer movie, features canard wings and ...
Who would have thought just a few years ago that we would be witnessing the roll-out of electric aircrafts with designs from sci-fi movies and TV shows. The Manta ANN2 eVTOL is the latest entrant into the burgeoning world of electric eVTOL aircrafts that will perform a variety of missions from search and rescue, ...
Many strange yet interesting technical ideas have been developed in Japan, including voice-activated refrigerators, notification glasses, flying umbrellas, and now a single-seat personal aircraft. Tetra Aviation, a Japanese company has unveiled the single-seat 33-rotor Mk5 personal eVTOL that the company plans to make ...
Hydrogen is slowly becoming the fuel of the future and the PIAC PA-890 eVTOL helicopter is pioneering that path by becoming the world's first hydrogen powered helicopter. There was a time hydrogen was considered too dangerous for use in Aviation, with memories of the Hindenburg still fresh on the minds of many. ...
Urban air mobility startup Bellwether Industries revealed footage of the test flight of the Volar eVTOL that resembles an aircraft you would see in a sci-fi movie. This futuristic flying vehicle looks like a hypercar blended with an aircraft with a razor-sharp profile that betrays speed. The design is revolutionary, ...
This prehistoric looking bird-like eVTOL is the wildest project coming out of Africa and aims to upend the entire eVTOL industry with a radical design that has heads turning. Aptly named Phractyl Macrobat like a prehistoric bird, this proposed one-seater aircraft features an insectoid-like body with wings attached to ...
Air, an Israeli aviation startup company unveiled a two-person electric aircraft called the one for personal recreation. The company designed the aircraft for personal everyday use and it features collapsible wings for storage easy storage in your garage or backyard. It's propelled by eight rotors on two sets of pods ...
XTI aircraft is developing the XTI TriFan 600, a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. It's a six-seat fixed-wing aircraft with three ducted fans: two on the wings and one in the aft fuselage. All three provide lift, allowing the aircraft to achieve VTOL (vertical take-off and landing).
A flying car cannot be defined as a "flying car" unless it resembles a real car. That point needed to be clarified because many concepts entering the flying car competition look nothing like an actual car. That said, the Fusion JC7 is by far the closest concept we have seen that resembles an actual flying car.
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For centuries mankind has always dreamed of flying and with the invention of the Automobile came the desire for a flying car. AeroMobil is bringing this dream to reality with its flying car inspired by the mythical winged horse Pegasus. The company announced the second model of its revolutionary flying car, the ...
Although battery-powered passenger planes are still a ways off, electrifying aviation might help address the industry's major environmental issues. However, all-electric seagliders that glide over the water like pelicans may be available much sooner.
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The all-electric Robinson-44 helicopter driven by a magniX electric propulsion unit made its successful first flight, according to magniX, a Washington State-based maker of electric aircraft motors owned by Singapore (EPU).
The flight on Saturday, June 4, 2022, was carried out by Tier 1 Engineering, a Santa ...
