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

We've been following Electra's ultra-short takeoff and landing electric hybrid prototype for some time and now the company ...

Automaker is developing a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft concept for intercity travel.

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Could this gorgeous electric plane be the Tesla of the skies? It may be a concept, but it has some good ideas to consider. This company has found a way to retrofit planes so they fly with electric ...

A French startup developer of hybrid-electric aircraft plans to build a 500,000-square-foot airplane factory along Florida’s Atlantic Coast — its first facility in the U.S. Aura Aero on ...

“In the electric airplane, there’s one digital instrument that shows you where the battery levels are, what power setting the motors are in, and there’s one power lever to control it.