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Lilium Gets $90M Funding for Electric VTOL Project
Flying car startup Lilium unveiled their working all-electric VTOL prototype back in April, showing that their design is functional. Even more impressive is that it has a higher top speed than a helicopter at 300km/h and shows a more passenger-friendly design than some of the drone prototypes from other companies.…
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NASA Engineer Hired to Direct Uber Elevate VTOL Project
We reported four months ago of Uber’s plans to develop Uber Elevate, a fleet of Vertical Take-Off and Landing or VTOL taxis sometime in the future, but it looks like that future is going to arrive earlier than expected. Uber has just hired NASA engineer Mark Moore as Director of…
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Uber Teams Up with Star Wars for Rogue One Campaign
To promote the new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story film, Disney has teamed up with Uber for a campaign replacing the icons on the popular ride sharing app with Star Wars-themed ones starting Sunday night. The icon-swap itself will be opt-in only so that not all users are confused…
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Flying Cars are Coming to Europe
A European venture firm has made a significant investment in a German aviation firm to bring flying cars to the continent. Atomico has invested €10 million in Lilium Aviation to ensure that the world’s first consumer flying cars will be European. Munich-based Lilium has strong form working on vertical take-off…
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Uber Developing Automated VTOL Flying Taxis
Private transportation outfit Uber may already be working on ditching its drivers in favour of self-driving cars, but the company is now looking even further into the future, according to Jeff Holden, Head of Products at Uber. In an interview with Recode, Holden revealed that Uber is looking into creating…
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Fly or Shoot with Parrot’s Swing and Mambo Drones
Drones have come a long way since they first come out. Originally used to fly over dangerous countries and areas, the devices are now seen flying all over the country with everyone owning a small drone that connects to their phone or laptop. Parrot is just one of many companies…
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Welcome To The Lilium – Your Personal Electric Plane
Look back at any picture of the future from twenty years ago and they all have one thing in common, Flying cars! While we may have just started working on self-tying shoes and actual hoverboards, the idea of a flying car is still years away as we figure out the kinks…
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TF-X Flying Car to Hit Roads (and Skies) by 2018
Terrafugia, a US-based small aircraft manufacturer, is building its first flying car, and has revealed that it hopes to begin testing it as soon as 2018. The TF-X is a hybrid electric flying car, which can carry four people, has unfolding wings with twin-mounted electric motors on either sides to…
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Elon Musk “Tempted” to Build Electric VTOL Jet
Not content with his fleet of Tesla electric cars, his astronautics startup SpaceX, and his attempts to revolutionise public transport with Hyperloop, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has revealed that he is “tempted” to build an electric vertical-take off and landing (VTOL) jet plane. “I’ve been thinking about the vertical-take off…
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FLARES – A New Drone Launch and Retrieval System
Just like a full-sized aeroplane, landing a fixed wing drone is no easy feat, made even more difficult under poor ground conditions and lack of space. Most drone makers accept this issue by designing their drones to handle light crash landings. Sometimes this just isn’t reasonable, be it due to…
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NASA Launches 10-Engine Electric Plane
NASA is testing a 10-engined prototype battery-powered VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) aeroplane. The 10-foot wingspan GL-10 plane, codenamed Greased Lightning, is currently being put through a rigorous design and testing phase at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, and is meant as the precursor to an even larger,…
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1990s Flying Car Prototype Up For Auction
Back in the late-eighties, ambitious aeronautics company Sky Innovations pumped $6 million into the production a flying car. The result of that folly, the Sky Commuter, helped bankrupt the business. Only three prototypes of the Sky Commuter were produced in 1990, and the last surviving model is being put up…
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