Next year, pilots will fly an aircraft around the world that is powered by four electric motors and 11,000 solar cells on its wings. “E-mobility,” said Ohlmann, “starts now.” ...
Recently, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, said the Federal Government plans to ...
The team at [Bearospace Industries] has been working on the challenge for the while, and their Solar Dragon aircraft recently had a very successful test flight, producing about 50% more power than ...
A Brisbane-based aviation company is working with CQ University researchers to get Australia's first green hydrogen-powered ...
The latest trials also saw the aircraft carry an active intelligence ... The new model has more than twice the onboard solar power generation and storage capacity than the current version.
They could store more power than ever before, leading to planes like the Solar Impulse 2. Starting in 2015, the solar-powered aircraft spent 16 months flying around the world, except it flew at an ...
The Zephyr is not your usual aircraft. It only travels at 40mph, it is launched by hand and it is completely solar-powered. The unmanned craft flies high in the atmosphere, to avoid commercial air ...
Embraer Executive Jets in Melbourne, Florida, is working with Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) to expand its use of ...
Following a groundbreaking round-the-world trip in the solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 in ... the hydrogen into electricity to drive the electric motors used for rotor propulsion.
The competition to become the most outlandish vehicle at CES is stiff: You have the swoopy solar-powered Aptera ... known as an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOL.