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 ...

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 ...

The Zephyr S is being kept up in the stratosphere by the Sun and keeps breaking its own endurance records. By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Jul 31, 2022 By all accounts the Zephyr should be dead.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If the glory years of the Burlington Railroad began in 1934, with the Burlington Zephyr's phenomenal Dawn-to-Dusk run, surely they culminated in 1949, with the arrival of the California Zephyr.