Advances in computational and experimental tools along with new technologies in materials, structures, and aircraft controls, etc. are enabling a high degree of integration of the airframe and ...

The world’s first amphibious seaplane using distributed electric propulsion will be developed by a new partnership between Airflow.aero and Tailwind Air. Tailwind’s Letter of Interest (LOI) commitment ...

India's burgeoning eVTOL industry has seen major advancements, investment, and partnerships taking place over the last few years. The country has just seen an indigenously produced 1,540-lb (700-kg) ...

On the runway to more fuel-efficient aircraft, one alternative propulsion scheme being explored is an array of electrically powered ducted fans. The fans are distributed across the wing span or ...

A Peterbilt truck at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center may never get off the ground, but, carrying a 31-foot wing outfitted with 18 propellers, it is instrumental in advancing a ...

Airbus' EcoPulse hybrid-electric distributed propulsion demonstrator aircraft has completed its maiden flight using its complete powertrain of ePropellers, high-density batteries, and a turbogenerator ...

Jetoptera, an aviation startup developing powerful UAVs and realistic flying cars, will present its breakthrough fluidic-propulsion system at AUSVI XPONENTIAL 2018, both as an exhibitor at the ...

Over a few weeks in the closing months of 2023, the shape of aircraft propulsion changed significantly with flights by three quite different aircraft: Elroy Air’s Chaparral, Electra.aero’s Goldfinch ...

Startup Electra.aero in 2021 is aiming to demonstrate the ability to take off and land in around 100 ft. using distributed hybrid-electric propulsion to support its development of ...

On the runway to more fuel-efficient aircraft, one alternative propulsion scheme being explored is an array of electrically powered ducted fans. The fans are distributed across the wing span or ...