AALTO plans to launch several additional test flights of its ultra-long-endurance Zephyr from a new facility in Kenya this ...

AIRBUS is “in talks” with a plane seat designer that wants to put double-decker seats in economy. Revealed by aviation start up Chaise Longue back in 2021, they are yet to ever be ...

The Zephyr is not your usual aircraft. It only travels at 40mph, it is launched by hand and it is completely solar-powered. The unmanned craft flies high in the atmosphere, to avoid commercial air ...

Following its launch on 20 January, the solar-powered, ultra-long-endurance aircraft climbed to 60,000ft, for a sortie of an undisclosed duration. The longest Zephyr flight conducted to date ...

Read more: The 10 Most Iconic Airplanes In Aviation History, Ranked Because the Zephyr is a fully electric aircraft, it's relatively new. As the Army puts it through its paces, the UAS has racked ...

As noted in the announcement, this initial Kenya-based trials campaign saw a number of firsts for the Zephyr HAPS including the longest unrefuelled flight of any aircraft type over Africa and the ...

18. The incident did not cause any injuries. “The prototype aircraft's flight ended when the Zephyr 8 UAS encountered events that led to its unexpected shutdown,” said the US Army Command in a ...

Airbus’s involvement in Zephyr, which was conceptualized in the early 2000s, dates back to 2013. Almost a decade later, the European aircraft maker launched Airbus HAPS Connectivity Solutions as ...

Original plans for the build included a flat-plane-crank 5.2-liter V-8 from the ... Either way, this Zephyr is undeniably cool.