Urban Aeronautics in Israel has begun untethered unmanned flight tests of their vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) prototype AirMule vehicle: “AirMule Achieves Major Milestone on the Path to Full Mission Demonstrations” The AirMule, an unmanned VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft developed by Tactical Robotics Ltd., a subsidiary of Urban Aeronautics, Ltd., has successfully completed a major milestone … Continue reading Sci-Tech: UrbanAero’s fancraft AirMule making test flights→
Here’s a video of last Friday’s tethered flight test of the Project Morpheus rocket VTOL vehicle: Caption: Morpheus Bravo vehicle executed another successful tether test on August 23, 2013 as NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC). All test objectives were met within the ~50 second flight including ignition, ascent and a 3 meter lateral translation, 10 … Continue reading Video: Morpheus Lander tethered flight test on Aug.23.13→
The American Helicopter Society has judged that the University of Toronto AeroVelo team has won the AHS International’s Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition. The competition awards a prize of $250,000.00 pledged by Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. for the first successful controlled flight of a human-powered helicopter: AeroVelo Officially Awarded AHS Sikorsky Prize! – AeroVelo … Continue reading Sci-Tech: AeroVelo wins Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition→
I’ve been checking in on Paul Moller and his SkyCar project occasionally since the late 1980s when I read an article in the Economist about his project. He has been working on flying cars since the 1960s and has made a few millions along the way with spinoff inventions such as the SuperTrapp muffler and … Continue reading Sci-Tech: Update on Paul Moller, Space Sciences, UrbanAero & Aerofex→