by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jun 12, 2020 | Flight, Technology
The aviation revolution will not be live, instead it will electrified – at least that’s what that’s what Marc Ausman of aircraft pioneers Airflow.aero thinks. According to the aerospace expert we are now standing at the third stage of the aviation revolution. The...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jun 12, 2020 | Space, Technology
Giant size ambitions need equally large size planes to make them happen and on May 18 the supersized AN-124-100 ‘Ruslan’ Antanov cargo airplane brought a crucial component to Cape Canaveral for NASA’s next Mars missions – an Atlas 5 rocket booster that will play a...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Oct 31, 2019 | New York, Technology
UPS has received the US government’s permission for its subsidiary Flight Forward to operate a drone airline. The company will initially expand its drone delivery service further to support hospital campuses around the country and to provide solutions for customers...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Oct 31, 2019 | New York, Technology
As the race for market share within the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) market heats up a collaboration has been announced between one of the world’s biggest carmakers Porsche and leading plane maker Boeing. The Memorandum of Understanding between the two companies will see...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Oct 9, 2019 | Technology
Embraer and Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Ufes) collaboration in the areas of autonomous robotics and artificial intelligence has resulted in the first test of an autonomous aircraft in Brazil. A prototype was created to perform the taxiing operation on its...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Aug 23, 2019 | Technology
German startup Volocopter has released the VoloCity, the fourth-generation eVTOL vehicle that Volocopter has created as the race for an on-demand air taxi service based around electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft takes off. The first three VoloCity were...