Does an electric flight from New York to Boston for $70 sound too good to be true? That's the promise being made by the electric-airplane startup Zunum Aero—and it’s one that you certainly shouldn’t dismiss out of hand. READ MORE
Airline passengers around the world could begin flying on hybrid or even electric aircraft in 2022, soaring high in the sky on thousands of short-haul regional routes that aren’t currently economically feasible with traditional planes, and saving time while they do it. READ MORE
There are a number of exciting future technologies on the horizon in aviation, from self-flying airliners to VTOL flying taxis. These concepts are still years off, however... READ MORE
Dirk Ahlborn, CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), kicked off FTE Global by asking the audience whether they were familiar with hyperloop. While idea of... READ MORE
The first electric driven air vehicles had been Zeppelins and flew more than 100 years ago. But a little more than just 10 years ago the history started new and now you find e-flight and electric aviation everywhere. Companies from Siemens up to Airbus look at this field. And they look at small aircraft to [...]
In recent years the pace of change in new technology has often meant that standards and regulations have to be developed after the product or process is ready. However, in the... READ MORE
We finished the weight sizing of the hybrid propulsion system for our 50-seat regional turboprop in the last Corner. Now we go a bit more into detail. There are additional parts needed in the system that we skipped over last time... READ MORE
Ever been stuck in traffic and wished you could just levitate and fly over the crawling cars? Flying cars of various sorts entered the popular imagination more than five decades ago... READ MORE
Zunum Aero aims to reshape the regional air travel market with hybrid electrical aircraft. CEO Ashish Kumar explains how and why... READ MORE
Air travel hasn’t improved in a long time. Planes actually fly more slowly and with less frequency than they did in decades past because of increasing fuel costs and airlines... READ MORE
