Samad Aerospace, the British VTOL designer who recently presented their third aircraft, has now achieved the next big milestone in the development of their biggest electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, the e-Starling.
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Potential Rolls-Royce eVTOL prototype spotted at Cranfield Airport
Aerospace Engineering student at Cranfield University, Hari Venkitaraman, uploaded a video to Reddit’s /r/aerospace community showing an unknown eVTOL protoype with rotating rotors, presumably doing some sort of ground testing at Cranfield Airport.
Read moreSAMAD aerospace presents two-seater luxury eVTOL
SAMAD aerospace is a British VTOL designer that presented its first hybrid-electric Starling Jet at Singapore Air Show in February 2018, later followed by an all-electric version, the e-Starling. In a stepping stone to the latter, the company now presented the Q-Starling as a project of smaller-scope, yet with innovations and technologies that will advance their capabilities to the benefit of the e-Starling development.
Read moreAirbus presents 2035 vision with three hydrogen powered electric aircraft
Airbus thinks that by 2035, the first zero-emission commercial aircraft could be flying, and they presented three concepts as a stepping stone towards that vision. They are exploring hydrogen propulsion under the working name ZEROe, which they believe can cut aircraft emissions by up to 50%. Glenn Llewellyn, Airbus Vice-President of Zero-Emission Aircraft, said that five years ago, the company didn’t even consider hydrogen propulsion to be a viable technology to cut emissions. The use of the hydrogen propulsion in other transport areas however has produced data that shows its potential for aviation as well. As recently as five years…
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