Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:50:07 +0000
The FAA’s YouTube channel has a recording of a recent event where a panel of experts in public safety discussed best practices for small electric unmanned aviation, or drones. If you’d like to watch the video itself, it’s embedded below, but if you want to read my summary, scroll further down. The panel consisted of: […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:50:44 +0000
While electric aviation is mostly experimental today, or when not experimental, only working for unmanned drones (which still do a hell of a lot of good), the aviation industry has much bigger goals. They eventually want aircraft that can take off and land vertically (aka VTOL, or Vertical Take-Off and Landing), run on clean electric […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 18:50:26 +0000
The Inflation Reduction Act contains major new incentives for the sustainable aviation fuel research and development.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:50:54 +0000
In some recent social media posts, the FAA Drone Zone announced that it is doing a redesign to make the website more visually appealing and easier to use. On Monday, the new design opened up for users to check out. US Drone Rules Can Be Complicated The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires all commercial UAS […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:50:30 +0000
A new flow battery for electric vehicles is getting attention from DARPA, NASA, and the US Air Force.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:50:08 +0000
In a press release, the City of Phoenix recently announced that its fire department launched a project to integrate small-scale electric aviation into its operations. Since the launch in June, the team has been responding to a small subset of the department’s overall emergencies, both for training and to figure out best practices for using […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 22:50:39 +0000
Many people here, especially big Tesla fans, know either what an FPV drone is, or have seen footage from one. After the video from Tesla Germany, it’s hard to not be impressed. While this isn’t lifesaving or doing anything amazing like some of our other stories on electric aviation, it’s still highly impressive. As a […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 20:50:54 +0000
As part of the effort to integrate clean unmanned electric aviation into US skies, the FAA created a Remote ID rule for small drones. This rule, which was first proposed in 2019, would require all drones to broadcast their location and identification information while in flight. This information would be available to anyone within range […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 16:50:58 +0000
While there has been a lot of hype over the future of electric vertical takeoff and landing craft (eVTOL) for use as air taxis in cities, we haven’t seen much in the way of concepts from automotive manufacturers. They’re already too focused on coming up with electric vehicles and trying to catch Tesla to do […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:35:11 +0000
I don’t think I have to explain the problem with oil leaks from pipelines, but fewer people know about the problem of methane (aka “natural gas”) leaks. Not only is loose methane in the atmosphere bad for people and animals who breathe it in, but it’s also a much more potent greenhouse gas compared to […]