Richard Branson’s space travel dream will take off this year and joining the fleet that will fly (very rich) folks to the realm of space is the new VSS Imagine, the first SpaceShip III spaceship.
Category Archives: AIRCRAFT
Singapore-based Aerospace Contractor Has An Ambitious Plan To Build An Alien-Looking Supersonic UAV
What you see here is a render of supersonic unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) currently under development by Singapore-based aviation contractor, Kelley Aerospace.
This eVTOL Has A Unique Closing Fan-In-Wing System That Lets It Flies Like Regular Airplane
Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft is not new. So is eVTOL with wings loaded with vertical lift rotors. But Cavorite X5 eVTOL from Canadian aerospace company is not the regular wings-with-vertical-lift rotors VTOL. It has a patents-pending wing system, a fan-in-wing design, that promised “highly efficient operational flight.”
South Africa Aerospace Company Is Developing A Takeoff And Land Anywhere VTOL Business Jet
With the rapid advancement in vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, you know it is a matter of time that some is going to propose a VTOL business jet. The Pegasus Vertical Business Jet or VBJ by Johannesburg-based Pegasus Universal Aerospace (no relation to Marvel’s Project PEGASUS) is one such proposition.
Donald Trump’s 1989 Sikorsky S76B Helicopter Is For Sale
Words in the press are, the 45th President has lost his throne. Fret not if you are a loyal supporter with the riches because, besides the mess in America you have him to remember by, you can fly home a piece of the man himself. No. The Air Force One isn’t on sale, neither is …
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KITE Is A Concept Passenger Drone For Four With A Private Jet Interior
This is KITE designed by Hong Kong-based Ponti Design Studio. No, it is not an actual kite, kite. The name was inspired by a migratory bird called black kite that stops by Hong Kong during winter.
Embraer Phenom 300E Private Jet + Porsche 911 Turbo S: Bundle Purchase For The Rich
Every other people: buy TV bundle, white goods bundle. Very rich people: buy private jet and sports car bundle. The latter is exactly what Porsche and aircraft manufacturer Embraer is offering.
Airbus Revealed The World’s First Zero-Emission Concept Aircraft
4.5 billion passengers were carried by the world’s airlines which produced 915 million tonnes of CO2 in 2019. 915 million tonnes may be a large number, but in realty, it is just a drop of the ocean – or mere 2% – compared to all human-induced carbon dioxide emissions and just 12% of all transport-related …
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CycloTech’s Proposed eVTOL Propulsion System: It’s Really Complicated
We had this piece of news on our hands for more than week. We hesitated because, we are not sure if we could explain what it is in a nutshell. On one hand, we welcome the fact that someone is thinking outside the box in the area of electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) propulsion, …
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Meet Boom XB-1, The First Independently Developed Supersonic Aircraft
Four years after Boom Technology revealed its plan to develop a new supersonic jet, the Colorado-based aviation company introduces its first demonstrator, XB-1. Billed as the first independently developed supersonic aircraft, the XB-1 demonstrates the key technologies that will enable safe, efficient and sustainable supersonic travel.