CO2 is disappearing from aviation more slowly than from cars: a project by General Electric in the US and Safron in France promises engines that are 20% more efficient than today’s by the mid-2030s.
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Lufthansa Technik, Hamburg Airport and two aviation development centres are working together to find ways of storing hydrogen that can be used as fuel for aircraft.
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Bringing electric, vertical take-off and landing vehicles up to aviation standards could cost up to $1 billion. Germany’s Lilium would solve the problem by using suppliers with expertise in the aviation industry.
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Norway is testing how to drone medical samples between two hospitals 100 kilometres apart. Røros Hospital is a branch of St Olavs Hospital in Trondheim. The hospital takes medical samples on a regular basis, but these often have to be analysed in Trondheim, 100 kilometres away. Currently, most of the samples are transported by car.
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What makes the 142nd landing of Klein Vision’s futuristic transport vehicle so special is that the AirCar was the first to complete an inter-city journey. Starting from a grass runway near Nitra this week, Klein’s Vision AirCar car/airplane hybrid arrived in Bratislava in 35 minutes.
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At least according to the CEO of Hyundai. At the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, the world’s first car that can fly was unveiled, the brainchild of Dutch company PAL-V. Called Liberty, the vehicle uses a 99 horsepower engine on the ground and a 197 horsepower engine in the air.