Flight Design's F2-CS23 aircraft received CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China) type certificate validation. This validation follows EASA certification and allows for the aircraft's production ...

The Flight Design F2 has transferred to the company’s production facilities in the Czech Republic for manufacturing while the primary plant in Kherson, Ukraine, remains in harm’s way. [Credit: Glenn ...

On June 1, 2007, Indian Air Force pilots Rahul Monga and Anil Kumar set out to fly around the world in a single-engine airplane. But not just any airplane. This would be the first circumnavigation of ...

Ascendance Flight Technologies builds on the virtues of hybrid technology and distributed propulsion to develop sustainable air travel solutions. After three years of R&D, the French start-up company ...

French company Ascendance Flight Technologies has become the latest to unveil a proposed hybrid-electric aircraft design, a five-seat model intended to operate over a 400km range. Designated the ATEA, ...

When designing an aircraft for the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) industry one would think most of the aircraft architecture would focus on vertical lift capabilities. However, German ...

Aurora Flight Sciences, a subsidiary of Boeing, joined a NASA project that aims to optimize the engineering process of eVTOL vehicles. Aurora is now collaborating with the University of California San ...