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Transportation: Air Travel

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https://newatlas.com, Paul Ridden

Vertical Aerospace operating out of Bristol, UK, aims to bring on demand, emissions-free intercity air taxi services to the UK skies within four years. The company has nailed the first step in its bold plan by building and flying a fully electric ver

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https://newatlas.com by Loz Blain

A Singaporean company has resurrected a post-WW2 German design to commercialize a beautiful reverse-delta ground effect vehicle as a high-speed, high-efficiency ferry for six to eight passengers. The Airfish 8 hovers serenely between two and 23 ft (0

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Next News Network - Gary Franchi

The New York Times reports, The story is as bizarre as it is tragic: An airline worker who had no business being in a cockpit somehow took off from a major airport in a turboprop passenger plane, dipped and soared in the skies above the Seattle area,

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https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian Wang

Boeing has selected mach 5.0 as the top speed for a hypersonic passenger jet because that greatly simplifies the structural materials and the propulsion. Standard titanium alloys used in aircraft and jet engines today are strong enough to survive the

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https://newatlas.com, Ben Coxworth

At the recent Farnborough Air Show 2018, aerospace engineers from Britain's University of Central Lancashire presented what they state is the world's first graphene-skinned aircraft. Known as Juno, the 3.5 meter-wide (11.5-ft) unmanned plane could be

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https://insideevs.com, BY MARK KANE

Shown some two years ago, an experimental all-electric airplane X-57 Maxwell, is being presented at the AirVenture Oshkosh 2018 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin (July 23-29). The X-57 is expected to fly for the first time in 2019.

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk By Hugh Morris

A 2,000-strong fleet of supersonic jets serving hundreds of destinations around the world in a matter of hours is an achievable goal, according to the mastermind behind one project attempting to revive the Concorde era.

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