The Nevada based company Airship Surveillance has announced the successful trial flight of a new surveillance airship called L15. The long loiter time of the airship is expected to make it a supreme surveillance tool. The new automated built in ...

GEN H-4 is the world’s smallest co-axial helicopter. This ultra-light aircraft weighs only 155 lbs (70kg) when empty, and is capable of reaching a maximum speed of 55 mph (88 km/h). The GEN H-4 is powered by four twin cylinder ...

The Performance Aviation Manufacturing Group (PAM) has created the Individual Lifting Vehicle (ILV) concept that is being developed as a kit in the United States. PAM 100B, which was constructed in order to demonstrate the ILV concept, achieved a maximum ...

Since Zephyr, a 30kg solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), completed a 54-hour flight in late August 2007, it holds the world record for the longest-duration unmanned flight. During the 54 hour test flight, the Zephyr UAV, built by a team ...

Shape memory polymers are polymers whose qualities have been altered to give them dynamic shape “memory” properties. Using thermal stimuli, shape memory polymers can exhibit a radical change from a rigid polymer to a very elastic state, then back to ...

For the first time the gigantic Airbus A380, also known as the Superjumbo, landed in the U.S. The Superjumbo is the largest airliner in the world capable of carrying up to 853 passengers (555 people in the standard three-class configuration). ...

Parachutes are usually associated with skydivers and on more rare occasions with cargo which can nowadays be dropped from a plane with pinpoint accuracy using a GPS guiding system. However, a parachute for a whole plane is a different concept ...

Boeing Phantom Works, NASA, and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory are preparing a new scaled-down version of a remote-controlled blended wing body (BWB) aircraft dubbed X-48B for flight tests early next year. The large wing shaped prototype was build ...