Future Flight
FLOATING, FOILING AND FLYING: HOW DOES REGENT'S ELECTRIC SEAGLIDER WORK?
It has been a busy time for progress in electric aviation, with several new aircraft and vehicles taking to the skies for test flights across the world recently, including a new type of vehicle that will transport passengers just a few feet above the surface of the water.
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October 2022
Future Flight
PLANS FOR 30-SEAT ELECTRIC REGIONAL AIRLINER
In 2020 the Swedish start-up revealed its 19-seat ES-19. However, Heart Aerospace has now unveiled a design for its 30-seat ES-30 electric regional airliner. During a 15 September event at Heart's Gothenburg headquarters, Air Canada and Swedish aerospace and defence group Saab each committed to investing $5 million in the venture.
2 min |
October 2022
Future Flight
WISK UNVEILS GENERATION SIX eVTOL AIR TAXI PROTOTYPE
The four-passenger, all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is the first candidate for FAA certification for autonomous, passenger-carrying air taxi, the company said.
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October 2022
Future Flight
S-PLANE TO CONVERT MWARI TO OPTIONALLY PILOTED AIRCRAFT
South African Paramount Group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with S-Plane Automation that will integrate its optionally piloted vehicle solution onto Paramount's Mwari aircraft.
2 min |
October 2022
Future Flight
M3 SYSTEMS, PIPISTREL, VOLOCOPTER COMPLETE DECONFLICTION TESTS
M3 Systems, air traffic (ATM) and management unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operator, light and electric aircraft manufacturer, Pipistrel and Volocopter, a pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), have completed their first joint flight test campaign in France at Pontoise airfield.
3 min |
October 2022
Future Flight
FIRST FLIGHT FOR STUDENT-BUILT ELECTRIC SLING
The four-seater was developed and assembled by 20 students at ETH Zurich over two years at Innovation Park in Dübendorf, Switzerland, as part of their studies towards their bachelor's degrees.
2 min |
October 2022
Future Flight
MARS ROVER EXPLORES ANCIENT MARTIAN RIVER DELTA
NASA's Perseverance rover is a car-sized, six-wheeled rover designed to explore the Jezero Crater in Mars's Syrtis Major quadrangle. The crater measures approximately 28-miles in diameter and is thought to have once been flooded with liquid water in which life may have existed. In some Slavic languages, the term 'Jezero' man's lake.
2 min |
October 2022
Future Flight
SOUTH AFRICAN FIRST FOR SANBS DRONE DELIVERY
A three year-long initiative by the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) came full swing with the issuing of a remote operator's certificate (ROC) by the SA Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA), believed to be the first medical delivery drone license in the country.
3 min |
September 2022
Future Flight
DRONE BOOTLEGGING ON THE RISE IN THE US
The notion that a society's essence manifests most purely in its vices and criminals finds compelling expression in Bryant LeRay Henderson, who was arrested and charged with multiple felonies after allegedly flying a drone into a federal prison for purpose of delivering drugs and electronic devices to inmates.
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September 2022
Future Flight
BYE AEROSPACE's eFLYER 2 MAKES PROGRESS TOWARD FAA APPROVAL
Bye Aerospace first flew its initial prototype of the eFlyer 2 in April 2018 and since then it has been working through several iterations of the aerodynamic design, powerplant, battery system and other components that will go into the eventual production version of the all-electric, two-seat aircraft.
2 min |
September 2022
Future Flight
EVIATION ALICE ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT
Eviation Aircraft is aiming to complete type certification and service entry for its Alice fixed-wing electrically powered aircraft by 2026. The company intends to certify Alice under the US Federal Aviation Administration's Part 23 rules.
4 min |
September 2022
Future Flight
AERODELFT STUDENTS BUILD HYDROGEN PLANE
A team of students at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has successfully flown the first prototype of its Phoenix hydrogen-powered aircraft. The AeroDelft student team aims to promote the use of liquid hydrogen as an alternative to conventional aviation fuels by developing two hydrogenpowered aircraft: the remotely piloted Phoenix Prototype and the two-seat Phoenix full scale, which the team revealed with a taxi run during the annual AeroDelft summer event at Breda International Airport in the Netherlands.
3 min |
September 2022
Future Flight
URBAN AIR MOBILITY: A FUTURE ALTERNATIVE TO CURRENT PUBLIC TRANSPORT?
In past decades traffic congestion in cities has commonly been increasing, considerably impacting the quality of urban life both from an environmental perspective and on citizen's mental health. Today's measures set by cities aim to dissuade people from using their cars due to increasing road taxes, parking fees, and congestion, but rarely offer alternative means of transportation.
4 min |
September 2022
Future Flight
CEO SHOWS THE AIR ONE PERSONAL eVTOL FOR GA PILOTS
The CEO and co-founder of Air wants to help create an entirely new form of air transportation for General Aviation pilots. To that end, Air is in the midst of developing Air One, a personal electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft with a base price of $150,000.
3 min |
September 2022
Future Flight
AMERICAN AIRLINES TO ACQUIRE BOOM SUPERSONIC JETS
In a move that speaks to the increasing popularity of legalised gambling, American Airlines, the world's largest passenger air-carrier has entered an agreement to purchase up to twenty of Boom Technology's Overture supersonic airliners. The deal, which contains options for an additional forty aircraft, follows United Airlines' 2021 commitment to purchase 15 Overtures of its own.
4 min |
September 2022
Future Flight
HARBOUR AIR COMPLETES 72KM ELECTRIC SEAPLANE FLIGHT
With Harbour Air recently conducting a safe first round trip with its ePlane test aircraft, here are some facts about Harbour Air, the ePlane and the historical moment.
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September 2022
Future Flight
JOBY AVIATION EXPANDS DOD AFFILIATION
California-based and Toyota-backed Joby Aviation, the builder of Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles, is expanding its existing contract with the US Air Force's Agility Prime programme, an initiative the service launched in 2020 to experiment, test and generally hasten the development of eVTOL for cross commercial and military use.
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September 2022
Future Flight
UNITED AIRLINES INVESTS ANOTHER US$15 MILLION IN ELECTRIC FLYING TAXI MARKET WITH EVE
On 8 September United Airlines announced a $15 million investment in Eve Air Mobility and a conditional purchase agreement for 200 four-seat electric aircraft plus 200 options, expecting the first deliveries as early as 2026.
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September 2022
Future Flight
RUSSIA UNVEILS MOCK-UP OF ITS FUTURE SPACE STATION
Russian companies Energia Rocket and Space Corporation are currently developing a draft design of the Russian Orbital Station (ROSS) which is expected to be launched in two stages, the country's space agency said without giving exact dates. The first stage would see a four-module space station start operating in the low earth's orbit. That would later be followed by two additional modules and a service platform.
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September 2022
Future Flight
ANA GROUP DRONES TO FLY MEDICAL AND DAILY SUPPLIES TO REMOTE REGIONS AROUND THE WORLD
To assist rural communities access basic commodities, ANA is operating a drone delivery service to provide vital infrastructure. Connecting people is ANA Group's mission, no matter what form it takes.
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September 2022
Future Flight
CAN JETPACKS REPLACE HELICOPTERS TO SAVE PEOPLE'S LIVES?
There was a time when jetpacks were part of science fiction. However, thanks to technological advances, jetpacks, devices with back-mounted engines, and handheld controls, have become a reality.
4 min |
September 2022
Future Flight
TAWAZUN INVESTS IN HYDROGEN AIRCRAFT PROJECT
The UAE's Strategic Development Fund (SDF), the investment arm of Tawazun Economic Council has invested into the development of a hydrogen-powered aviation programme.
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September 2022
Future Flight
THE FIGHT AGAINST POACHING IN AFRICA UTILISING DRONES
Drones are no longer restricted to military and government-related operations. What was a $4.4 billion industry in 2018 is expected to exceed $60 billion by 2025 as drone technology experiences a boom in innovation and there's a rise in the number of people using them for recreation.
4 min |
September 2022
SA Flyer Magazine
STARLITE AVIATION TRAINING ACADEMY - Now Training Mission Networked Pilots
Advanced network flight training simulators have become a core part of pilot development. They provide an environment that fully immerses the student in the entire mission, and not just the actual aircraft flying.
4 min |
September 2022
SA Flyer Magazine
THE KNYSNA TRIANGLE
Knysna is a very odd place - there's no airfield near the town. But when I was there, there were three active ones in walking distance of the CBD. And all within a few hundred yards of each other.
10 min |
September 2022
SA Flyer Magazine
SOLAR-POWERED DRONE CRASHES
The Airbus Zephyr's 'unexpected termination' comes after 64 days in the air. The Zeyphr surpassed all known uncrewed aircraft endurance records.
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September 2022
SA Flyer Magazine
Prepare to Meet thy Boom by 2030?
Aviation has a fascinating ability to suck people, who should know better, into investing in fundamentally absurd ideas.
6 min |
September 2022
SA Flyer Magazine
THE GLIDING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
South Africa produced an outstanding all-round performance at the 37th FAI World Gliding Championships, held in Szeged, Hungary in August.
2 min |
September 2022
SA Flyer Magazine
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
The Bugatti 100P was a beautiful blend of art and engineering.
6 min |
September 2022
SA Flyer Magazine
BOMBARDIER GLOBAL 6000 - SMOOTH OPERATOR
The market for large business jets in Africa is fiercely contested. Bombardier has done particularly well in this tough environment with its Global 6000. We look at its features - and what its operators like, and dislike, about it.
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