UK company Faradair which is developing the unusual hybrid-electric BEHA is relocating to a new AvTech campus at Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire. The AvTech campus … Read more
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VoltAero reveals production hybrid-electric Cassio
French startup company VoltAero has revealed the production design for its Cassio aircraft, powered by a hybrid-electric module. It’s a radical design with a canard … Read more
Ampaire’s electric EEL glows at Oshkosh
+VIDEO The hybrid-electric Cessna 337 twin being developed by Ampaire will go on display at this year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh with Letters of Intent being … Read more
Airbus to develop hybrid power helicopter
Airbus Helicopters is working on a hybrid powered helicopter and expects to make the first flight in 2020, it was announced at last week’s Paris … Read more
First flight for Ampaire’s hybrid-electric Cessna
Californian company Ampaire has made the first flight of its hybrid-electric Cessna 337, swapping out one of the aircraft’s two engines for an electric propulsion … Read more
Equator Aircraft restarts flight tests of hybrid amphibian
The unusual hybrid power amphibious two-seater being developed by Norwegian company Equator Aircraft has restarted flight tests. The aircraft has its first flight on 26 … Read more
Faradair to certify hybrid electric 18-seat aircraft
British aerospace start-up Faradair intends to certify its 18 seat, hybrid electric ‘BEHA’ aircraft (Bio Electric Hybrid Aircraft) for passenger operations by 2025. The hybrid … Read more
Rolls-Royce to fly hybrid-electric aircraft by 2021
Rolls-Royce expects to be flying an experimental aircraft with a hybrid-electric propulsion system by 2021, the British company has announced. It follows successful ground tests … Read more
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BIO-PLANE! A fascinating French project which plans to emulate Lindbergh’s pioneering flight across the Atlantic, on an unusual combination of bio-fuel, hybrid-electric and solar power … Read more
Hybrid-electric Cassio rises from E-Fan ashes
The two men who championed the Airbus electric E-Fan aircraft project before it was canned by the manufacturer in 2017 have set up a new … Read more
