Category: Aircraft
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Hyundai partners with Rolls-Royce to develop electric and hydrogen engine for new types of aircraft
Rolls-Royce and Hyundai Motor Group are to collaborate on bringing all-electric propulsion and hydrogen fuel cell technology to the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) market, which includes electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The partnership will leverage Rolls-Royce’s aviation and certification capabilities and Hyundai Motor Group’s hydrogen fuel cell technologies and industrialisation capability. Both companies…
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Denso and Honeywell to develop electric engine for Lilium Jet
Denso and Honeywell Aerospace are co-developing an electric motor for the Lilium Jet. This is the first product developed by Honeywell and Denso since formalizing their alliance, and it marks Denso’s entry into the aerospace market. The two companies will work with Lilium, developer of the first all-electric vertical take-off and landing (“eVTOL”) jet, to integrate…
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Autonomous aviation company Xwing expands its air cargo operations to 400 weekly flights
Autonomous aviation company Xwing is marking what it describes as “significant milestones”, including the expansion of its commercial cargo operations under FAA CFR Part 135 Air Carrier certificate, the addition of FAA CFR Part 145 certificates and “rapid company growth”. Over the last 12 months, Xwing has more than tripled its team to 180 employees.…
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Skyports partners with Park24 to develop vertiport infrastructure
Air taxi vertiport developer and operator, Skyports, and Japan’s largest parking lot and car sharing operator, Park24, have signed an agreement to explore the development and integration of vertiport infrastructure of “advanced air mobility” (AAM) into Park24’s parking and car sharing network. The agreement also involves partners including Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance, a Japanese general…
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Hydroplane highlights its hydrogen fuel cell powerplant development
Los Angeles-based Hydroplane is participating in the 2022 European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE2022) May 23-25, 2022, where it will showcase its work toward a modular hydrogen fuel cell powerplant for aviation and mobile energy storage. Hydroplane’s large 9m x 9m booth is located in EBACE’s Innovation Zone in the company of the most…
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Wisk and Skyports partner to develop infrastructure for autonomous aircraft
Wisk Aero and Skyports are partnering to integrate autonomous, electric, vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft operations at vertiports and other ground-based infrastructure. The partnership marks the first collaboration between a vertiport developer-operator and an autonomous eVTOL developer in the US. Wisk Aero is an advanced air mobility company and developer of an all-electric, self-flying…
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Airbus boss backs hydrogen airplanes as the ‘ultimate solution’
The CEO of Airbus, currently the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, says he believes hydrogen-powered airplanes are the “ultimate solution” to the unfair criticism of the aerospace industry as a planet-polluting monster. The World Wildlife Fund says the aviation industry is “one of the fastest-growing sources of the greenhouse gas emissions driving global climate…
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Jetson Aero sells out of its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft
The Swedish company Jetson Aero says it has sold out of the “entire 2022 production” of its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVtol). Since the official launch on the 21st of October 2021, another 100 units have been sold for 2023 delivery, with over 3,000 pre-orders during the same time period. The Jetson One…
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Kawasaki demonstrates unmanned cargo transport system which combines an aircraft and a mobile wheeled robot
Kawasaki Heavy Industries says it has successfully completed proof-of-concept (PoC) testing for an unmanned cargo transport system. (See video below.) The system combines Kawasaki’s K-Racer-X1 prototype unmanned vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft and what is commonly described in the industry as an autonomous mobile robot, and which the company describes as a “delivery robot”.…