Air taxis and personal transports

NASA applies ‘data & reasoning fabric’ research to understand challenges associated with urban flights

A Data & Reasoning Fabric (DRF) project by NASA is helping to address challenges encountered when flying in cities and urban areas. Tall buildings, local microclimates, high winds, and other factors present challenges – both […]

Research

New EUR 40 million European HECATE programme will research electric distribution systems

To support hybrid-electric propulsion systems, new high-voltage distribution technologies will be required as electric power levels increase from hundreds of kilowatts in today’s aircraft, to megawatt levels in the aircraft of the future. The HECATE […]