The Liaoning Ruixiang RX1E, China's first electric general aviation aircraft, showcases the potential of electric propulsion to transform aviation.

The Technologies for Small Aircraft (KF) facility operates the Innovation Center for Small Aircraft Technologies (INK) for research into electric and hybrid-electric flight. We provide the research ...

"In my view, the main bottleneck is still ... This means that for now, electric propulsion is only viable for small aircraft ...

Hybrid-electric aircraft maker Pipistrel just pushed its Nuuva V300 electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) craft through a major milestone. In the video below you can see it break the chains ...

Electric aircraft proponents say that cost reductions like that would have the potential to transform short-haul flying by opening point-to-point routes between small and midsize markets that aren ...

Cox said the effort harkens back to a time decades ago when U.S. companies were the best in the world at building new things.

[File photo/Xinhua] BEIJING -- Home-grown four-seat electric aircraft RX4E has ... airworthiness for normal category aircraft, which includes small aircraft. The type certificate, one of the ...

Santa Cruz, California-based Joby Aviation and Archer Aviation of San Jose, California, are among the companies working toward developing fleets of small electric-powered eVTOL aircraft — for ...