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Horizon Aircraft's "Cavorite X7"

Food delivery is a very convenient service, and now, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has almost become a necessity. As food retailers worldwide were pushed to expand their food distribution systems, several took to trialing drones (like Amazon’s Prime Air) to reach more customers faster. Walmart recently started a...

There are over 200 companies worldwide developing transformative vertical flight aircraft for advanced/urban air mobility. These aircraft use electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) technology. They may incorporate either non-traditional electric or hybrid propulsion for manned (onboard pilot) or unmanned (remote pilot, or autonomous control) operation. Among these pioneers is...

From Australia comes Airspeeder by startup Alauda Racing, a four-meter long and three-and-a-half-meter wide flying electric racing vehicle with four or eight electric motors that travel 200 km. It takes off and lands vertically, is made of carbon fiber, and weighs 120 kg without a pilot or 250 kg maximum...

United Parcel Service (UPS) has partnered up with German drone maker Wingcopter to deliver its packages. UPS Flight Forward (UPSFF) was the first company approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the first to fly commercial drone deliveries outside the visual line of sight. Now, this new partnership will...

Drone soccer is a new, fast-growing, futuristic sport that takes traditional soccer to a whole new level. The game was first introduced to drone enthusiasts in 2016, by a research team from CAMTIC Institute of Technology, based in South Korea’s Jeonju city. The city launched the first match on November...