by Dean Sigler | Mar 19, 2021 | Electric Powerplants, ground effects machine, Kitty Hawk, Kitty Hawk Flyer, Larry Page, Sustainable Aviation, ultralight aircraft
What’s the definition of a “flying car?” Does it need four wheels and quick-deploying wings to meet the definition? Engineers at Kitty Hawk, a Larry Page-funded company, showed some major sales points for what looks to be an easy-to-fly, somewhat whimsical...
by Dean Sigler | Mar 19, 2021 | Adventure Aircraft Inc., ballistic parachute, Brian Carpenter, Electric Powerplants, EMG-6, Plettenberg motors, Plettenberg Nova 15, Plettenberg Nova 30, Plettenberg Predator 37 motor, power pods, Rainbow Aviation, RASA propellers, Schulze motor controller, Sustainable Aviation, sustainer motor, ultralight aircraft, ultralight glider
Brian Carpenter of Adventure Aircraft Inc. (part of his Rainbow Aviation Company) must trust his engineering, since he acted as his own test pilot for the first flights of his EMG-6 ultralight glider, a craft with options of mounting one, two, three (or even four, as...
by Dean Sigler | Mar 19, 2021 | Aero Expo Friedrichshafen, Batteries, Comco Ikarus, Comco Ikarus C42 CS, Electric Aircraft, Electric Powerplants, Geiger Engineering, Horst Lieb, Light Sport Aircraft, Sustainable Aviation, ultralight aircraft
Relatively unknown to American pilots, Germany’s largest ultralight aircraft manufacturer, Comco Ikarus in Mengen, was able to announce the first flight of its successful two- seater C42 / CS as an electric version just before the start of AERO, the annual aircraft...
by Dean Sigler | Mar 19, 2021 | . V-220, Avro Shackleton bomber, contra-rotation, counter-rotation, CR Flight, drones, Electric Aircraft Components, Electric Powerplants, F. W. Lanchester, Hacker Q80-8M V2, Light Sport Aircraft, Northrop XB-35, Sustainable Aviation, Tupolev TU-95, ultralight aircraft, V-100, V-20, V-50
Sacramento, California based CR Flight is dedicated to building highly-efficient motor/propeller combinations based on contra-rotation – propellers turning contrary to one another. Not to be confused with counter-rotation – two propellers driven by two different...
