Turkey is setting up an infrastructure for the civilian transport of goods using drones. Turkey is setting up an infrastructure for the transport of civil goods by drone. The Turkish General Directorate of Civil Aviation (SHGM) is developing a governance model to regulate, license and operate drones for civil use.
For short journeys probably with electricity and hydrogen, for long journeys with biofuels. Everyday realities have not yet been deeply affected by the determination of most of the developed world to move to a climate-neutral, CO2-free economy in all sectors.
With a desert climate and an average annual rainfall of just 100 millimetres, the UAE is funding a number of research projects to bring rain from the sky. A team of researchers at the University of Reading in England will begin testing drones that would fly into the clouds and generate rainfall from the clouds using electrical pulses, near Dubai, CNN reported.
Aviation is by far the most polluting form of transport and more and more people are speaking out against it. While Airbus and many others are experimenting with ways to make planes greener, the UK’s Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) would rather bring airships back into the public consciousness – or at least something like them.
EHang Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: EH) (“EHang” or the “Company”), the world’s leading autonomous aerial vehicle (“AAV”) technology platform company, today revealed its new type of electric passenger-grade AAV “VT-30”, the first in EHang’s product suite that is designed for inter-city transportation. With a hybrid structure, VT-30 is designed to travel a distance of up to 300km with a designed flight time of up to 100 minutes and is designed as a safe, convenient, efficient, eco-friendly and intelligent air mobility solutions for inter-city travel.
Aircraft manufacturer SE Aeronautics is looking to break with tradition by redesigning its aircraft to create more efficient and greener passenger aircraft.