Aircraft is basically all things that flies, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Toys & Hobbies not included.
If you’ve ever been stuck in traffic, staring at the open sky and wishing your car could just take off, Alef Aeronautics has some good news for you. Their drivable flying car, the Alef Model A, just completed its first real-world flight near San Mateo, California. No, this wasn’t a […]
Move over Boom Supersonic—China has entered the chat. Say hello to the Cuantianhou which literally means “Sky-Leaping Monkey,” because nothing says speed quite like a primate in turbo mode. Developed by Sichuan Lingkong Tianxing Technology Co., Ltd., this next-gen supersonic aircraft promises to shrink the world in ways your budget […]
The skies are getting a whole lot faster as Boom Supersonic edges closer to making aviation history with its XB-1 demonstrator. This isn’t your average test program—this is a countdown to shattering the sound barrier and revolutionizing passenger travel with the future-ready Overture aircraft. November Milestones: Sharks, Heights, and Supersonic […]
Who needs traditional runways when you can have a flying machine that takes off like a helicopter and cruises like a plane? Enter AutoFlight, a trailblazer in eVTOL (electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing) technology, which just achieved a historic milestone with its first successful flight in Japan. Taking to the […]
American aircraft manufacturer, Sikorsky, best known for its helicopters, is working on a unique unmanned VTOL aircraft for DARPA. This is no ordinary VTOL—it is a novel vertical takeoff and landing uncrewed aerial system with a twin proprotor ‘rotor blown wing’ configuration that sits on its tail to take off […]
As far as commercial jet goes, the aerospace industry is going through a shake-up phase. There is a couple of companies working to revive supersonic air travel and then there was the KLM and Delft University of Technology’s proposal of a Flying V fuselage jet, the most radical design change […]
The iF Product Design Award 2024 winners have been recently announced, and among the 2,294 iF award recipients from 10,800 submissions, a UAV piqued our interest. It’s the new Shadow S3 from Chinese UAV maker Ziyan, designed for law enforcement, security, and various commercial applications. Just a recap, Ziyan is […]
It has always been mankind’s dream to shave travel time. Humankind achieved that at some point but the sonic boom created by the Concorde proved too much when it flew over land. That, and safety-related issues – among others – ended supersonic travel.
What you see here is AirFish, a wing-in-ground craft by ST Engineering AirX, a joint venture of ST Engineering and Peluca (formerly Wigetworks). The young JV works to continue to build on Wigetworks’ AirFish family of Wing-in-Ground craft.
If you did not already noticed, except for a handful, almost all so-called urban air mobility is based on quadcopter or multicopter VTOL which are essentially person-size drones. But recently we stumbled upon a company that took an entirely differently direction; an urban air mobility that is based on today’s […]
Supernal LLC, Hyundai Motor Group’s high-flying division, just showed off their latest sky-skipping toy, the S-A2, at CES 2024. This electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle is like a magic carpet for the modern age, designed to zip people around cities faster than you can say “Up, up, and […]