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Jun 12
Electric aircraft developer Vaeridion inked letters of intent for more than 100 of its nine-passenger Microliners with six prospective European operators.
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Jun 11
A group of aviation innovators has urged the European Commission (EC) to do more to support efforts to bring all-electric and hybrid-electric aircraft into commercial service.
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Jun 11
A Sarasota, Florida, nonprofit group has flown what it says is the first piloted electric airplane powered by solid-state batteries.
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Jun 10
ERC System has unveiled the first full-size example of its Victor U250 hybrid-electric cargo drone.
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Electra has unveiled a turbo-electric airliner concept that the company projects could fly up to 17% more efficiently than the advanced aircraft otherwise expected by mid-century.
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Airbus Helicopters is unveiling the U145, an uncrewed version of the H145 light twin, this week at the ILA Berlin airshow.
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NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft reached supersonic speeds for the first time on Friday.
The aircraft departed at 11:08 am PDT from Edwards Air Force Base in California, for an 81-minute flight that reached about Mach 1.1 and an altitude of 43,400 feet.
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GE Aerospace has completed ground testing of a megawatt-class hybrid-electric propulsion system developed as part of NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration project.
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Israeli eVTOL start-up Air has named Dynon Avionics its exclusive avionics supplier, adapting a glass flight deck popular among light sport airplanes for use in electric powered-lift operations.
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Whisper Aero says it has found a way to make its electric ducted fans lift an aircraft nearly vertically from a helipad-sized footprint while using about half the thrust a conventional eVTOL needs to hover.
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