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Harbour Air Makes Aviation History With 1st Electric Seaplane Flight — CleanTechnica Interview

December 23, 2019 admin Aviation, clean transport, de havilland dhc-2, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, electric aviation, electric retrofit, Electric vehicles, greg mcdougall, harbour air, magnix, maiden flight

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 04:35:12 +0000

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, aviation is not only undergoing its third revolution, with electricity this time, but history was made on Tuesday, December 10, in Vancouver, Canada, when Harbour Air took off in a seaplane using electricity. The maiden electric seaplane flight is a sweet wink at commercial aviation history, which started with seaplanes

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Lilium Jet Accomplishes 3-Minute Test Flight

December 21, 2019 admin autonomous vehicles, Aviation, clean transport, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, Electric vehicles, electric vertical takeoff and landing, evtol, liluim jet

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 04:57:44 +0000

The Munich-based aviation startup Lilium Jet has been busy and recently released a video of its successful 3-minute test flight on October 1st. Lilium tested controllability with banked turns in transition flight needed before certification and commercialization

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BAE Systems & Jaunt Air Mobility Collaborate on Electric Energy Management Systems for Urban Air Mobility Platforms

December 13, 2019 admin Aviation, avionics, bae, bae systems, clean transport, ehtisham siddiqui, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, electric aviation, Electric vehicles, jaunt, jaunt air mobility, kaydon stanzione, marine vessels, reduced rotor operating speed aircraft, uam, urban air mobility, yesh premkumar

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:46:11 +0000

I met with Yesh Premkumar, Program Manager of Strategic Development Controls & Avionics Solutions at BAE, regarding the recent memorandum of understanding (MOU) the company signed with Jaunt Air Mobility. I learned a lot about what BAE has to bring to the electric urban air mobility (UAM) table

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Safran’s New Aviation Electric Motors — CleanTechnica Interview

November 7, 2019 admin autonomous vehicles, Aviation, aviation electric motors, clean transport, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, electric motors, Electric vehicles, emrax electric motors, engineus, hervé blanc, INTERVIEWS, lithium-sulfur batteries, motors, nbaa-bace, safran, solid-state batteries, voltaero cassio 1, zodiac

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 01:47:28 +0000

I met with the Safran team at the National Business Aviation Association–Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) event two weeks ago for the introduction of their newly revealed ENGINeUS aviation electric motors. I learned a little more about what the company is doing in the electric aviation world and how it plans to develop its technology for the future of our urban air mobility (UAM) future

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Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Attracts More Aviation Startups & OEMs

November 6, 2019 admin airbus, autonomous vehicles, Aviation, bell, bernard charles, Boeing, boom supersonic, clean transport, dassault, dassault systemes 3dexperience lab, david ziegler dassault systèmes, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, electric regional commuter aircraft, Electric vehicles, eviation, formula e, Helicopters, Lockheed Martin, omer bar-yohay, spark racing technology, theophile gouzin, toyota, uam, urban air mobility, zero-emission aviation

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 20:31:56 +0000

A series of startups and established aviation giants are joining the Dassault Systèmes’ (DS) 3DEXPERIENCE platform family to support their digital engineering initiatives. Adding to the Airbus, Boeing, Bell, Lockheed Martin, and BOOM Supersonic family, electric air mobility pioneer Eviation Aircraft is also coming on board. A few more aviation startups are also using the Dassault platform, such as Joby Aviation and Solar Impulse. Stay tuned, as we will soon reveal even more startups who will use Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Lab

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Triumph & Jaunt Partner To Design, Develop, Certify, & Build Full-Scale Demonstrator

November 2, 2019 admin autonomous vehicles, Aviation, carter copter, clean transport, electric aircraft, Electric vehicles, electric vertical takeoff and landing, evtol, jaunt air mobility, jaunt evtol, martin peryea, reduced rotor operating speed aircraft, rosa, slowed-rotor/compound, triumph group

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:44:50 +0000

It’s been a little while since I’ve written about the incredible Jaunt Air Mobility adventure, and after intensive interviews with the team, I’m happy to report a deal with key aviation player Triumph Group

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Seaplanes Get Electric With Magnix & Harbour Air

October 29, 2019 admin aircraft hangar, airplane conversion, Aviation, Canada, clean transport, dhc-2 de havilland beaver, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, electric conventional takeoff and landing, Electric vehicles, first test flight, harbour air seaplane, magnix, transport canada

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:48:36 +0000

We’ve heard about electric air mobility for a few years now, and even electric boats, but Harbour Air, based in Vancouver, Canada, is the only one tackling electric seaplanes, as we previously covered

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The Airbus Vahana Flies

October 25, 2019 admin airbus, airbus a3, airbus a3 vahana, aircraft, autonomous vehicles, Aviation, clean transport, electric aircraft, Electric vehicles, electric vertical takeoff and landing, evtol, matt deal, nico kokocinski, pendleton unmanned aircraft systems, uam, uas, unmanned aircraft systems, urban air mobility, vahana, vahana program

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 01:00:33 +0000

Airbus electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) development might not be as fast-paced as startups’ development, but it is making progress nonetheless. Here’s what’s new with the Airbus Vahana e

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Is Kitty Hawk Introducing Range Anxiety For eVTOL Aircraft With Its Heaviside?

October 13, 2019 admin aircraft, airliners, airplanes, alphabet moonshot factory, autonomous vehicles, Aviation, clean transport, Cora, ectol, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, electric conventional take-off and landing, Electric vehicles, electric vertical take-off and landing, evtol, flyer, heaviside, hvsd, kitty hawk, sebastian thrun ceo kitty hawk, turbo fans, uam, urban air mobility, volocopter, vtol, wing-span, x co-founder

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 03:50:50 +0000

We finally heard about Kitty Hawk’s “secret project,” which sports the strange name of Heaviside. It introduces the notion of range for an electric vertical take-off & landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The demonstration of the aircraft flying is fantastic but I wonder if we’re about to witness another “range anxiety” war between eVTOL manufacturers? Let’s hope not

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New Electric Aircraft Motor Lab Aims For 1MW Electric Airplane Motor

August 27, 2019 admin autonomous vehicles, Aviation, clean transport, collins aerospace, collins electric aircraft lab, ectol, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, electric aviation, electric conventional take-off and landing, Electric vehicles, electric vertical take-off and landing, evtol, kelly ortberg, project 804, uam, united technologies advanced projects, urban air mobility, utap

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:27:34 +0000

You know a new industry is born when investments pour in and results encourage more spending. Now, a new lab, the Collins Electric Aircraft Lab, wants to offer urban air mobility (UAM) and the general electric aviation world a 1MW electric airplane motor