The Zephyr is not your usual aircraft. It only travels at 40mph, it is launched by hand and it is completely solar-powered. The unmanned craft flies high in the atmosphere, to avoid commercial air ...

Airbus chief Guillaume Faury admits the airline industry’s goal to become carbon neutral may “take a bit more time” than ...

To demonstrate their new technology's capabilities, researchers fitted a palm-sized, commercial ... self-sufficient solar-powered aviation is by being the first aircraft to successfully launch ...

In order for electric flight to really take off and become mainstream in both commercial ... fly an aircraft around the world that is powered by four electric motors and 11,000 solar cells on ...

The collaboration will help ensure the safe operation of the first generation of fuel-cell-powered passenger aircraft that are predicted to start this decade.

The modules provide solar power to a specially adapted Zenith 750 aircraft – the “electric Sky Jeep.” This prototype has a 30kWh battery, which is enough for a 30-minute flight. According to ...

Soaring demand for electricity is leading some companies to not only think out of the box for a solution, but out of this ...

Is it possible to make aviation greener? Global explorer Bertrand Piccard has no doubt. With his project Climate Impulse, he’s aiming to complete the first non-stop flight around the world on a green ...

(Bloomberg) -- The aviation industry is at risk of missing its goal of eliminating carbon emissions by 2050, the head of Airbus SE said, less than two months after the world’s biggest planemaker ...