The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) plans to lease two Pipistrel Velis Electro light sport aircraft powered by an electric motor as part of the Agility Prime program, the Textron ...

Florida-based Doroni Aerospace told FLYING it signed two agreements that could net the personal electric vertical ... hopes to certify the H1-X as a light-sport aircraft under the FAA's proposed ...

FlightSafety International is preparing aspiring aces for a hydrogen-powered ... an electric model that is beginning to pop up at flight schools, under an FAA light-sport aircraft exemption.

Still, that hasn’t stopped some manufacturers like Pipistrel from building light, battery-powered aircraft that are being used around the world. Experimental electric aircraft are also taking ...

said we've only seen the tip of the electric aircraft iceberg. The BlackFly and Velis Electro-which operates in the U.S. with a light sport aircraft (LSA) exemption-arrived first because they fly ...

Hyfly’s modified Dornier Seawings DS-2C takes off under battery-electric power ... powertrain for light aircraft. The testbed, a Dornier Seawings DS-2C amphibious light sport aircraft, made ...

Voltaero claims that the interior layout is the same and the aircraft can be used for passenger transportation, cargo ...

Beyond Aero, a startup with offices in Toulouse, Paris, and Los Angeles, presented the first concept of its hydrogen-electric light jet ... for hydrogen-powered aircraft in this category.

Different modes of flight enable the aircraft to draw power from different sources. And its electric capabilities ... that’s all the more important in light of cutbacks in staffing at the ...

and would need to be inordinately big to power a jumbo jet. It may never be possible. But electric light aircraft could still have a big impact in another way: if tens of thousands of flight ...

This research is to reach the decarbonization goal set by the French DGAC and CORAC civil aeronautics research council.