Astro Mechanica – founded in 2021 by Ian Brooke and with a tight ship of only eight employees – is an aerospace startup ...

eVTOL (Electric Vertical Take-off ... adjusting the angle of the central four motors. Roll is achieved by tilting the rotors on either side of the plane’s central axis, and yaw control is ...

But even though electric planes have been around since the 1970s ... the first flight with an electric motor took off, but it only lasted less than 15 minutes. Then, in the 1980s, lithium-ion ...

But consider that the aircraft burned no fuel and emitted zero emissions. Instead, the plane used an all-electric motor powered by a single battery. Called the e-Genius and built by engineers at ...

The agency awarded contracts to develop emission-slashing airplane designs that can take flight by 2050, including a ...

NASA has created the X-57 Maxwell, a fully-electric experimental aircraft with 14 motors, all on its wing. The Maxwell falls under NASA's X-plane "experimental planes" category and is the first ...

The two-person flyer is equipped with a 60 kW electric motor, with a cruising speed of about 157 km/hr. A 21 kW battery provides the plane with enough energy for a 55 minute flight, with a half ...

You feel like a bird." Electric motors are much simpler than jet engines, too; they contain one-tenth as many parts. Furthermore, electric planes cost far less to fly, since electricity costs only ...

The folks on the ground were also witness to a huge reduction in noise pollution as the converted Moni motor ... with his plane after the jump as well as a bonus video of his electric ultralight ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is the world's first full-sized, all-electric passenger plane. Her name is Alice. Now, she isn't the first attempt at an electric passenger ...