New Solar-Electric Aircraft was Designed for High-Altitude Missions
As more and more advantages of renewable energy are being taken into account in the field of aerial transportation, a new environmentally-friendly autopilot aircraft...
Drone Flight Endurance Record Broken
The Zephyr spy drone has extended the record for the longest flight within the Earth’s atmosphere to 25 days, two-thirds more than the previous...
Accelerated Development of Solar Electric UAVs
China is pursuing a solar-electric, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) development program called Qi Mingxing (Venus). According to a report by the Chinese aviation...
New Drone Charging Method to Allow Indefinite Operation
While the entire drone industry has been laser-focused on how drones can improve established commercial industries, the feasibility of indefinitely operational drones opens the...
New Solar Powered Drone will Stay Airborne for Whole Year
The PHASA-35 high-altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (HALE UAV) could stay airborne for a whole year using nothing but solar power. The project...
Versatile Electric UAV Under Development
The world market of civil UAVs such as full electric Air-Taxi, Border Guard, Logistics, Security, Natural Disaster and other missions is expected to increase...
Solar Power Source Developed for Autonomous Systems
Autonomous systems are predicted to become a part of daily life – often operating without human intervention. However, every time an autonomous system or...
Connectivity for Everyone, Everywhere?
“Connectivity for everyone, everywhere is one of the great challenges of our generation. Facebook has already connected nearly 100 million people as a result...
Hybrid UAV Tiger Gets New Propulsion System
The US Navy ordered 13 new fuel cell propulsion systems for installation onboard its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Protonex, a Ballard Power Systems’ subsidiary,...
Hybrid Tiger UAV to Defeat Flight Endurance Challenge
The widespread use of small UAVs in both the military and industry has been limited to-date by the factor of endurance. To fly all...
Hybrid Drone Breaks Endurance Record
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles powered by LiPo batteries (Lithium Polymer cells) usually have a limited endurance. The normal battery drone can fly only 10 to...
World-Record Flight for Hybrid Drone
Most commercial multicopter drones boast flight times of 25 to 30 minutes. Now, drone manufacturer Quaternium is claiming a new milestone in this field,...
Innovative hybrid aviation engine
Ashot Ashkelon, together with the Italian companies Efesto and C.F.M. Air have developed a new hybrid propulsion system (HPS). aviation safety .
The system was...
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Metal That Behaves Like a Gel Could Redefine High-Temperature Systems
A research team at Texas A&M University has developed the world’s first metallic gel — a new class of material that combines the strength...
