One of the leading eVTOL makers just achieved another huge milestone. Archer Aviation has announced that its Midnight aircraft just completed its first successful hover-to-horizontal flight transition a mere seven…
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Who said sustainability and speed can’t go together? The Racer just launched a new era for high-speed helicopters—or, more accurately, a new version of mixed-design aircraft. First announced in 2017,…
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This Bonkers Jet Has an Engine With No Moving Parts. It Just Completed Its First Flight.
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A jet engine with no moving parts. Sounds like something out of Dune. But a Baltimore start-up successfully flight-tested a scaled version to prove that the concept worked. Wave Engine…
Airbus’s innovative hybrid plane is up, up, and away. The EcoPulse recently completed its first flight test in hybrid-electric mode, marking a significant step toward the decarbonization of the aviation…
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This Bonkers Aircraft Just Completed the World’s First Piloted Electric Flight Powered by Liquid Hydrogen
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It appears the era of hydrogen-powered planes is upon us. H2FLY has completed the world’s first piloted flight of an electric aircraft powered by liquid hydrogen, according to a statement…
Virgin Galactic’s first business spaceflight “Galactic 01” went off with out a hitch on Thursday. The corporate’s VSS Unity spaceship and its provider mothership VMS Eve took off from Spaceport…