Jul 15, 2021 | Aerial Vehicles, Electric Vehicles
Filipino flying electric car inventor Kyxz Mendiola has set a new world record for the farthest flight undertaken on a hoverboard in Subic Bay, Zambales. Mendiola flew a Filipino-made hoverboard for 2,894 meters at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone on July 10, 2021,...
Jul 8, 2021 | Aerial Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Forests
Airborne Light Detection and Ranging, called LiDAR, has used aircraft lasers to map large forested areas for over 30 years, but high costs and lack of color images have made it a less efficient resource for describing tree variation at smaller scales. Since 2010,...
Jun 17, 2021 | Aerial Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Entertainment
While much of the eVTOL industry has its sights set on urban air taxis or cargo transportation, entrepreneur Matthew Pearson had another idea: electric flying race cars. So in 2019, he founded two companies, Alauda Aeronautics to manufacture the aircraft and...
Jun 17, 2021 | Aerial Vehicles, Mobility
Flying drones are doing great things today, from powerline inspection to security surveillance to precision agriculture (fertilizer and pesticide application). These drones have evolved from remotely piloted to fully autonomous, where the user programs waypoints and...
May 27, 2021 | Aerial Vehicles
The Jackson Municipal Airport Authority (JMAA) has partnered with Mississippi State University’s (MSU’s) Raspet Flight Research Laboratory to accomplish yet another aviation milestone for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). This partnership has enabled one of the world’s...
Apr 22, 2021 | Aerial Vehicles, Mobility
Urban air mobility (UAM) has become the new frontier in aviation, driven by a desire for small, quiet and sustainable aircraft to provide mass transportation for intra-city, short-haul and regional travel. What seemed like a pipe dream less than a decade ago looks set...
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