The Japanese government is investing large sums of money to develop flying cars with the aim of commercialising this market by as early as 2023,
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Category: Experimental craft
LIFT Aircraft demonstrates Hexa eVTOL Ultralight to US Air Force
Last week three top leaders of the United States Air Force watched an electric powered vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in flight during a
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NASA developing an all-electric “X-57 X-Plane”
NASA is having fun, with the help of its Pleiades supercomputer, visualising the X-57 “Maxwell” electric experimental aircraft, reports nasa.gov. As the National Aeronautics and
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Urban Aeronautics joins with Hatzolah Air to develop CityHawk for emergency medical services use
Israel’s Urban Aeronautics announced this week it has signed a MOU with U.S. based Hatzolah Air to develop its CityHawk VTOL aircraft for emergency medical
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Dufour Aerospace gains Innosuisse grant for wind tunnel testing
Innosuisse is supporting Dufour Aerospace with a grant to verify the aerodynamic design of Dufour’s manned tilt-wing, aEro 3, with a wind tunnel test campaign. The
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“World’s largest electric aircraft” completes successful test
The world’s “largest electric aircraft” has completed its first successful test flight. This milestone further showcases the potential as well as the problem of electric
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U.S. New Hampshire passes “Jetson law” to allow certain flying vehicles to drive on roads
New Hampshire is proclaiming itself to be the first American State to authorise flying cars. The bill signed by Gov. Chris Sununu, dubbed “the Jetson
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Dufour completes first phase of VTOL tech demonstrator flight trial
Building on the experience of manned electric flight with the aerobatic plane aEro 1, Dufour Aerospace have announced a successful completion of the first phase
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Oxis Energy and Texas Aircraft partner development of electric airplane in Brazil
Lithium-sulfur battery specialist, UK company Oxis Energy, has announced the development of an electric aircraft equipped with Oxis cells for training flights in partnership with
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Podcast interview: Kyle Clark founder of Electric Aircraft startup Burlington
During June, many onlookers in the Burlington, Vermont USA area saw something unusual in the sky; a large transport helicopter flying overhead with a smaller
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