A converted Cessna C208B Grand Caravan from Californian startup Xwing has completed a test flight on its own. The project could be the first step on the road to transforming regional freight transport. Xwing’s autonomous system can control the aircraft from standstill to standstill, meaning in theory there is no need for direct human intervention once the engine is fired up.
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It’s been a year and a half since the founders of Google finally stepped down from leading Alphabet (Google’s parent company). Sergey Brin, the ninth richest man in the world, has now surprised everyone with the fact that his company plans to use the world’s largest mobile hydrogen cell.
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At least that’s what DARPA wants, which wants a simple design. Known in the field of sci-fi, the concept of a jetpack, ie a mini-turbine that can be mounted on our back, has been occupying engineers for a long time, but so far we have not seen many reliable solutions that can be used in everyday life. We read about an interesting test recently, but now DARPA himself wants to see something like this, namely in the field of tactics.
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The use of fuel from the use of food waste has much lower emissions than the current use of aviation gasoline.
U.S. researchers are revolutionizing food waste in a revolutionary way: contrary to custom, it is not made into methane, but into paraffin that can also power aircraft, the BBC writes.
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The two-speed aircraft is intended to operate much more economically than the models developed so far, as it would not have to take its rotors with it on the road. The Navy is already interested in the plans. Talyn Air was founded in 2019 by two engineers who previously worked on SpaceX Falcon 9 missiles, as well as Dragon and Crew Dragon, Jamie Gull and Evan Mucasey.
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The Loyal Wingman, which is not only the first aircraft in the last fifty years to be designed and manufactured entirely in Australia, but also the first aircraft to be controlled by artificial intelligence instead of man.