Would You Buy an Electric Jet? You May Soon Have the Option An electric jet traveled around the world in 2016, but will the market adopt them? Here's how the market changed in 2018. Ever since Heino Brditschka flew for nine glorious minutes in his Militky MB-E1 electric battery powered plane, there have been high hopes for an electric jet. Well, 45 years have passed and it seems like just another fun aviation fact. But finally, it seems that one [...]

Choose One of These Five Airports in Europe for Your Next Trip Travelling to or around Europe on your own plane? London is the best place to land. Discrete, private landings can be hard to come by in some of Europe's most famous airports. Some are not qualified to land private planes or have way too much air traffic to do so, so if you're a first time aircraft owner or are simply flying on a private jet for [...]

Tier 1 Engineering announced today that they have set a Guinness World Record for the farthest distance traveled by an electric helicopter. The battery-powered manned Robinson helicopter achieved a record 30 nautical mile flight to 800 feet altitude with an average speed of 80 knots on Friday, December 7th.  The helicopter was a modified Robinson R44 test piloted by Captain Ric Webb of OC Helicopters. All flights were accomplished at the Los Alamitos Army Airfield under a special airworthiness certificate in the experimental [...]

The Bell X-1E was 31 feet long, with a wingspan of 22 feet, 10 inches. The rocketplane’s empty weight was 6,850 pounds and fully loaded, it weighed 14,750 pounds. Supersonic speeds, 80,0000 of altitude and an unlimited budget is what VREF calls, The rocketplane was powered by a Reaction Motors XLR11-RM-5 rocket engine that produced 6,000 pounds of thrust. The engine burned ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen. The X-1E carried enough propellants for 4 minutes, 45 seconds burn. [...]