23 July 2024 A Nottingham-based robotics company aiming to revolutionise aircraft production and slash the cost of new planes has secured a £1m equity investment from the Midlands… Read More
2 May 2024 Last summer, a British-designed, solar-powered aircraft flew for many hours at a height of 20km, establishing itself as a cost-effective alternative to traditional airborne and… Read More
19 June 2023 Collins Aerospace’s UK operation is developing a 1MW motor for use in a hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion system that aims to achieve a 30% improvement in… Read More
19 June 2023 The Japanese motor-maker Nidec and the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer are forming a joint venture called Nidec Aerospace to develop electric propulsion systems for the… Read More
16 June 2023 The Japanese manufacturer IHI has developed a “breakthrough” prototype high-flux plastic magnet rotor for use in ultra-high-speed motors, that would be would be efficient, lightweight… Read More
18 October 2022 An Australian start-up company is developing a new generation of smaller, lighter and more efficient electric motors based on a new magnetic material called Aeroperm… Read More
17 January 2022 A joint venture is being set up in the UK to develop and commercialise kW-MW scale electric propulsion systems – both conventional and superconducting –… Read More
23 November 2021 Rolls-Royce claims to have smashed the world speed record for electrically-powered aircraft with its Spirit of Innovation plane which recently hit a top speed of… Read More
16 September 2021 Rolls-Royce has flown its all-electric Spirit of Innovation aircraft for the first time. The craft – with which the company hopes to set a new… Read More
10 September 2021 Wright Electric, a US company developing zero-emission commercial aircraft, has started to test a 2MW electric motor that it plans to use in the 186-passenger… Read More
