Electric aircraft propulsion specialist Wright Electric is preparing to begin ground testing with the M2500 electric engine ...

Whisper Aero has secured a $500,000 grant to help bring the company's motor concept off the drawing board and onto the ...

Richard Hammond and James May reunite for an epic throwback to their Top Gear days, pitting a super-powerful car against a battery-powered aircraft ...

It’s often said that every great advance in aviation begins with a new kind of engine; I suppose that putting electric motors into airplanes is such an advance, but in a somewhat backward ...

Most current projects to develop electric light airplanes begin simply by removing the gasoline engine and replacing it with an electric motor. Not these guys. As soon as the NASA team got started ...

When nickel-cadmium batteries were invented, the first flight with an electric motor took off ... Starting in 2015, the solar-powered aircraft spent 16 months flying around the world, except ...

That’s only if everything goes according to plan, however. If things go south, the demonstrations can not only backfire for ...

Along with Tennessee Tech, Tennessee-based ultralight aircraft company Whisper Aero has secured a $500,000 grant to help advance the company’s innovative electric jet motor concept off the ...

The airplane that Everett ... Meanwhile, magniX’s 650-watt electric motor has been tested at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test ...

Electric RC aircraft are not known for long flight times ... The airframe is a Phoenix 2400 motor glider, with a 2.4 m wingspan, powered by a 600 Kv brushless motor turning a 12 x 12 propeller.