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An index of clean or energy-efficient flight concepts, prototypes, and available products relating to human flight.

Anti-Gravity

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Latest: Directory:Suppression / Directory:Movies / Directory:Anti-Gravity > Directory:Searl Effect Generator (SEG) > The Story Behind The John Searl Story - Comments by John Searl about the film and excerpts from the film log. Follow-up dialogue about coming film sequel that will address the topic of the powers that be who not only suppressed the technology, but stole it. (PESN February 11, 2009)

Speed

Directory:Hydrogen > Green Skies at Mach 5 - Hydrogen-burning A2 hypersonic airliner by Reaction Engines could fly at Mach-5 (3,400mph)--more than twice as fast as the Concorde--carrying 300 passengers, without producing a trace of carbon emissions. (Popular Science Jan. 23, 2008)

Flying Cars

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Personal Flight Systems

Latest: Directory:Flight > Directory: Vision VTOL Quadcopter by The Waters Trust - Imagine what you can do with a remote control quadcopter. What if you scaled it up for human passengers? Now that energy storage technology has reached the needed threshold, human quadcoptor travel is ready to take off using mostly off-the-shelf components. (PESWiki January 21, 2016) Directory:Flight > Directory:Ionic Thrust > Ion-thrust powered hovering aerial-vehicles using wireless energy supplied from ground (for sale) - Venture Isles client, Personal Flight Systems (PFS), holds one of the most coveted patents in novel science, the patent for manned and unmanned electronic flight. The founder developed an improved way to use new electrically charged, polarized, proprietary alloys to create thrust to lift small, ultralight aircraft. (Yet2.com October, 2011)

Hoverbikes

Latest: Directory:Flight > Directory:Hoverbike by Chris Malloy - Australian helicopter pilot, Chris Mallow, is working on a motorcycle hovercraft design to travel at 100 mph and reach altitudes of up to 10,000ft. A 1/3-scale hoverbike drone prototype of the futuristic flying machine had its first formal public appearance at the Wings and Wheels airshow in Surrey, UK. (PESWiki August 30, 2014)

Jetpacks

Moved to Directory:Jetpacks

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Directory:Flight > Japanese Defense Ministry shows world's first spherical flying machine - (Propeller, not anti-gravity) Weighing in at about 12 ounces (350 g), the 16-inch (42 mm) diameter flying ball can launch and return vertically, maintain a stationary hover and zip along at up to 37 mph (60 km/h). (News:GizMag October 26, 2011) Directory:Flight / Directory:Solar > Directory:Solar Applications > Directory:Solar:Vehicles > Zephyr Solar Plane Completes 10x Longest Unmanned Flight Ever - The Zephyr solar plane has officially broken the endurance record for an unmanned aircraft by flying for a whopping two weeks above an Arizona army range. The photovoltaic-powered Zephyr, which touched down on Friday, handily beat the previous world record of 30 hours with a new record of 336 hours! (Inhabitat July 26, 2010) Directory:Hydrogen / Directory:Flight > Long-endurance, hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye UAV unveiled - Unveiled earlier this week in St. Louis, Boeing's Phantom Eye will set a new benchmark in long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology when it takes to the skies in 2011. With a wing-span of 150-feet, the hydrogen-powered aircraft will cruise at 150 knots, carry up to 450-pounds and stay aloft at 65,000 feet for up to four days. (GizMag July 13, 2010) Directory:Wireless Transmission of Electricity / Directory:Flight > Helicopter Flies 12 Hours Charged By Laser - LaserMotive is a Seattle-based company developing laser power beaming systems to transmit electricity without wires, for applications where wires are either cost prohibitive or physically impractical. (sUAS News Oct. 29, 2010)

Other Flying Small Craft

Directory:Flight / Directory:Human-Powered > First Continuous Flight of a Human-Powered Ornithopter! - A University of Toronto student has succeeded where Leonardo Da Vinci had failed, completing the first continuous flight of the human-powered aircraft known as an ornithopter. Todd Reichert , a PhD student at the U of T Institute for Aerospace Studies at the University of Toronto, succeeded in piloting the aircraft, which flies by flapping its wings like a bird. (Inhabitat Sept. 23, 2010) Latest: Directory:Flight >Directory:Carter Copter - Carter Aviation Technologies is a research and development company pioneering new aviation concepts, focusing on slow-rotor compound aircraft, VERTOL and using a small efficient wing for high speed flight, up to 500 mph, all with much less complexity than a tilt-rotor or other vectored thrust vehicle. (PESWiki March 14, 2009)

Multi Mode Vehicle - motorbike AND aircraft in one - Here we are in 2009 - televisions are thin, phones are smart and robots are on the rise, but still there's that nagging sense of disappointment each time you look outside and realize that cars don't fly. Samson Motorworks hopes to rescue us from this predicament. (GizMag June 3, 2009)

Directory:Flycycle - Canadian project objective is to build a practical human-powered aircraft. Their first prototype is nearing completion testing is pending. Presently a do-it-yourself project, complete with instructions.

HoverCopter - Vertical Lifting System (US Patent Pending) uses vertical airfoils to control the reverse torque created by spinning the horizontal rotor blades. Uses the down draft to achieve reverse torque and rotational control. Site mentions Perendev Magnetic Motor as ideal for the design.

AirScooter - Flying craft by inventor, Woody Norris, weighs 250-pounds, resembles a small helicopter, designed for medium distance air travel, but far easier to learn. Handlebar like a motorcycle. Can fly for 2 hours on one tank of fuel. (DiscoveryChannel.ca April 20, 2005)

Directory:Mimicking Living Organisms > Spiraling maple tree seeds inspire world's smallest single-winged rotocraft - Students at the University of Maryland have turned to nature to create a flying device -- possibly the world's smallest controllable single-winged rotocraft -- that can hover and perform surveillance duties, and that could lead to applications for military and emergency services. (GizMag October 21, 2009)

Fuel Efficient Flight

Airships

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Solar

Solar plane's 3-day flight - The solar-powered Zephyr aircraft developed by the UK defence and technology firm QinetiQ has completed the longest-lasting unmanned flight. Chris Kelleher, from UK defence and research firm QinetiQ, said Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer advantages over traditional aircraft and even satellites. Video (Slashdot) (BBC News'' Aug. 24, 2008)

Solar Aircraft Begins Virtual Flight Today – Check It Out Live - Solar Impulse hopes to send its HB-SIA prototype on its first test flight next year, and in preparation is conducting a virtual flight in its new cockpit simulator. The cool part is that they've wired the simulator up with webcams so people can watch the test live. (Thanks Directory:James Dunn)

Directory:Solar > Directory:Solar:Vehicles > Solar Flight - SUNSEEKER, a manned solar powered aircraft, has an electric motor, planetary gearbox, a folding propeller and 40 lbs of Lithium batteries installed in the wings. It was flown from Ramona to Tehachapi and back, over the Mojave Desert, San Gabriel mountains, Ontario, and Lake Elsinore. Flight time on the return was less than 3.5 hours.

Directory:Solar > Solar Plane to Fly Continuously Around Mars - Scientists believe that Sky-Sailor will reach the inner orbit of Mars within a decade or two. In 2005 a prototype achieved a continuous flight time of five hours, with a 24-hour flight test planned for the summer of 2007. With a lithium-ion polymer battery the plane can fly all night and during cloudy or foggy conditions, all on solar power. (PhysOrg Mar. 14, 2007)

Other Designs

Directory:Fuel Efficiency > Directory:Fuel Efficiency Vehicles > Directory:Flight > NASA Unveils Passenger Plane Designs for 2025 - NASA recently asked the three of the largest airplane companies in the US to come up with a design that would fit a very specific criteria. This project hoped to create a full-functioning plane by the year 2025 that would not only use significantly less fuel, but be cleaner and quieter and be able to fly up to 85 percent of the speed of sound, cover a range of approximately 7,000 miles and carry up to 100,000 pounds of payload. (Inhabitat January 14, 2011)

Spark Design PALV - The PALV (Personal Air and Land Vehicle): a concept for a new form of transport, developed by Spark and BBB Management. The PALV can be driven like a car and flown like a gyrocopter. (http://www.gizmag.com/go/3323/GizMag Oct. 14, 2004))

AeroBiker - Allied AeroTechnics Inc. - Official site of the AirBike™ VTOL Personal Aircraft.

Inventor plans to unveil jetpack at air show - Glenn Martin, 48, who has spent 27 years developing the devices, said he hoped to begin selling them next year for $100,000 apiece. (International Herlald Tribune July 29, 2008)

Jetpack with 10-mile Range Available Soon -Jet Pack International is releasing a new model early next year that'll let potential pilots take to the skies for a generous 19 minutes. The purchase price of $226,000 comes with an included training course so you don't kill yourself. (Gizmodo Dec. 12, 2007)

Directory:Fuel Efficiency > 50 MPG Plane Wins PAV Prize - The Pipistrel won NASA's Personal Air Vehicle X-Prize like contest, achieving 50 MPG. The plane is extremely light weight, so it becomes more fuel efficient as it flies and burns fuel, getting lighter. The plane's simple controls and ease of operation also helped it take home the prize. It costs about $70,000. (EcoGeek Aug. 15, 2007)

Directory:Fuel Efficiency > Directory:Fuel Efficiency Vehicles > 9 Steps to Cheaper Greener Flight - The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is the first commercial jet produced with efficiency specifically in mind, but the 787 still leaves a lot of room for improvement. Several designs are at various stages of production that could make air travel as efficient, or even more efficient, than automobiles. (EcoGeek Jul. 26, 2007)

Directory:Fuel Efficiency > Directory:Fuel Efficiency Vehicles > Ohio Airships - The Dynalifter® “Roadless Trucking?? system has transport costs and speeds comparable to trucking without the need of building a sophisticated highway network. It has the ability to fly on low amounts of power at low speeds, much like airships, but without the operational drawbacks of a traditional airship.

Directory:Fuel Efficiency > Directory:Fuel Efficiency Vehicles > Silent aircraft creeps closer to reality - Researchers from Cambridge University and MIT unveiled their concept for a flying wing aircraft that makes a huge reduction in noise. This highly-efficient design offers improvements of around 25% in fuel consumption and is intended for entry into service in 2030. (The Cambridge-MIT Institute November 06, 2006)

35% More Efficient Flight - Bauhaus Luftfahrt is promising emissions cuts of 35% by 2035, to meet the European Union’s Clean Skies initiative. They propose adoption of geared turbofans in conventional engines for 15%, then counter fans for 5%, and waste recuperation for another 15% efficiency. Bauhaus is also working on a box-winged aircraft for further reductions. (EcoGeek Feb. 14, 2008)

Spaceports

Directory:Flight / Directory:Anti-Gravity / Directory:UFOs > Virgin Galactic opens new spaceport - Space travel just got another step closer for the masses (at least the well-heeled ones) with the dedication of Virgin Galactic's new "Gateway to Space" facility at Spaceport America, the world's first purpose-built spaceliner terminal situated in the southern New Mexico desert. (News:GizMag October 18, 2011)

Asteroid Mining

See: Directory:Asteroid Capture - separate index page

Space

Directory:Nuclear > Article:Development of Ionic Electrical Thrust Technology > Building the Spaceship Enterprise for Real - BTE Dan would like to build the space ship Enterprise within the next 20 years, according to the Build the Enterprise website. This version of the Enterprise would be able to fly to Mars in 90 days. It would contain three nuclear powered ion engines and a "gravity wheel" that would provide a facsimile of Earth gravity for interplanetary voyages. (Yahoo July 9, 2012) Latest: Directory:Plasma / Directory:Anti-Gravity / Directory:Propulsion / Directory:Flight > Directory:Keshe Foundation >Part II: Was US Spy Drone Captured by Iranian Flying Saucer? - Sterling Allan, the founder of PESN, had the opportunity to conduct an hour and a half long interview with Mehran Keshe, the individual who claims to have given Iran the advanced space technology that enabled them to capture a US spy drone. (PESN December 16, 2011) Latest: Directory:Plasma / Directory:Anti-Gravity / Directory:Propulsion / Directory:Flight > Directory:Keshe Foundation >Part I: Was US Spy Drone Captured by Iranian Flying Saucer? - Mehran Tavakoli Keshe, an Iranian scientist and engineer, claims that an Iranian flying saucer technology he developed was used to capture the Sentinel drone about which the mainstream media has been reporting. Does Iran have a space program more advanced than NASA's? (PESN and BeforeItsNews December 14, 2011) Directory:Solar > Directory:Space Based Solar Power / Directory:Flight > Directory:Propulsion > First solar powered spacecraft successfully launched - Today, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun (IKAROS) craft. IKAROS is a space yacht that gathers energy for propulsion from sunlight pressure (photons) by means of a square membrane measuring 20 meters (65.6 ft) diagonally. (GizMag May 21, 2010) Latest: Directory:Plasma / Directory:Anti-Gravity / Directory:Propulsion / Directory:Flight > Directory:Keshe Foundation >Keshe launching energy generation and space exploration plasma technology - An Interview with the inventor of what could be the next generation of commercial space travel and clean energy generation, said to be ready for licensing [in March 2010]. We're talking super fast and cheap travel, and super cheap energy. (PESN July 22, 2009) (Comment) Latest: Directory:Plasma / Directory:Anti-Gravity / Directory:Propulsion / Directory:Flight > Directory:Keshe Foundation - Apparently having his plasma energy and anti-gravity technology theories being adequately proven, M.T. Keshe said Thursday that he is now ready to announce 1) technology demonstrations being given in major cities in 2010, 2) booking space flights up 60 kilometers in 2014 and 3) booking flights to the moon in 2016. (PESWiki July 19, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Spaceport America breaks ground, flights departing soon - Virgin Galactic may be spending over USD$300 million on a commercial space vehicle, and now it will have a place to land by 2011. Spaceport America, the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport, broke ground in New Mexico on June 19th. The 110,000 square foot facility will cost around $200m. (GizMag June 25, 2009)

Reaction Engines Talk to the Space Fellowship - “Skylon is an unpiloted, reuseable spaceplane intended to provide inexpensive and reliable access to space. It operates like an aircraft and uses an airbreathing rocket engine called Sabre (Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) from Reaction Engines Limited. The vehicle is currently undergoing a revision that will give it a 15 tonne payload to low earth orbit.” (Space Fellowship Jan. 7, 2009)

Successful test of superconducting plasma rocket engine - Ad Astra Rocket Company has successfully demonstrated operation of its VX-200 plasma engine first stage at full power and under superconducting conditions. VASIMRA engines could enable space operations far more efficiently than today's chemical rockets, and ultimately they could also greatly speed up robotic and human transit times for missions to Mars and beyond. (Space Fellowship July 6, 2009)

The new space race: first courier service to the moon - One of its most promising contenders in Google’s USD$30 million Lunar X Prize is Odyssey Moon, which has announced plans to become the first private company to supply payload delivery services to the Moon. (GizMag July 20, 2009)

Space Hotel 2012 - Start planning that vacation to outer space. The first space hotel is expected to open as soon as 2012, with three-day stay costing ~$4 million. The hotel, "Galactic Suites," will allow adventurous travelers to enjoy a spectacular starry view from their hotel rooms, see the Sun rise 15 times a day and take part in scientific experiments while they're not using Velcro suits to crawl around their pod-room walls. (Facebook)

What Is The Carbon Footprint of The Space Program? - While burning liquid hydrogen, which produces water vapour, is clean the process of creating the liquid hydrogen for one flight consumes about as much electricity as could power 128 average American homes for a year, not to mention the transportation costs for shipping that fuel to the launch site. (TreeHugger July 20, 2009)

Clean Fuels

Boeing tests battery-powered plane - "For the first time in the history of aviation, Boeing has flown a manned airplane that was powered by a hydrogen battery," Boeing chief technology officer John Tracy told a news conference at the firm's research centre in the central Spanish town of Ocana. (The Age April 4, 2008)

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1.58 minutes Story of Boeing's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Aircraft

"We are proud of our pioneering work during the past five years on the Fuel Cell Demonstrator Airplane project. It is a tangible example of how we are exploring future leaps in environmental performance, as well as a credit to the talents and innovative spirit of our team."

(April 4, 2008 YouTube)

Boeing Flies First Ever Battery Fuel Cell Plane!

Directory:Waste to Energy / Directory:Alternative Fuels > Directory:Diesel > US Military Investigating Fuel from Waste - Two companies are working together on a portable system that converts coal, natural gas, and biomass into diesel and jet fuel. The military could use the system to convert waste created at military bases--food scraps, paper, wood--into a fuel for military jets and vehicles.

Directory:Fuel Efficiency Alternative Fuels > Directory:Butanol > Butanol Jet Fuel From CO2 - Ocean Ethanol lab experiments confirm electrochemical production of butanol from CO2, water and electricity, generating butanol, water and oxygen. Estimated production cost is $.80 per gallon - based on current electrical rates, free water and free CO2. Butanol was identified by Virgin Airlines as the jet fuel of the future. (Ocean Ethanol Feb. 21, 2007) (Thanks [mailto:greg@globalmicroturbine.com Greg Giese])

Research and Development

Directory:Propulsion / Directory:Flight / Directory:Electromagnetic > Directory:Solid State Generators > Directory:Emdrive (Electromagnetic Space Drive) > ‘Impossible’ Device Could Propel Flying Cars, Stealth Missiles - The heart of the Emdrive is a resonant, tapered cavity filled with microwaves. According to its inventor, Roger Shawyer, a relativistic effect generates a net thrust, an effect confirmed by various Emdrives he has built as demonstrations. (Wired Oct. 29, 2009)

SpaceShipTwo heading for 2008 test flight - Designed as an environmentally benign space launch system, SpaceShipTwo is the world’s largest, all carbon composite aircraft and will be capable of carrying eight astronauts or other payloads into sub-orbital space flight. (GizMag August 4, 2008)

DLR and Airbus Testing Hydrogen PEM Fuel Cell Auxiliary Power System in A320 - The hydrogen fuel cell system worked consistently below 3G, with enough in store for a standby system. Since February 2008 the same fuel cell system has been used to power a hydraulic circuit pump, with the necessary power to steer the Airbus A320 ATRA (Advanced Technology Research Aircraft) . (GreenCar Congress May 26, 2008)

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