Flight tests of US electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft are about to enter the next stage. The USAF has granted airworthiness approval to the Heaviside electric vertical take-off and ...

Kitty Hawk performed static load training with its Heaviside tilt propeller electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in an Agility Prime operational exercise for US Air Force (USAF) ...

America's technological leadership is now viewed as an urgent matter of national security, and to make sure the country keeps its edge, the US Military is mustering its impressive resources to ...

The U.S. Air Force is one step closer to officially integrating eVTOLs in its activities. The first operational exercise in the Agility Prime project demonstrated that an electric aircraft can be ...

The costs of predation may exert significant pressure on the mode of communication used by an animal, and many species balance the benefits of communication (e.g. mate attraction) against the ...

When we draw schematics, we have the luxury of pretending that wire is free. There are only a few cases where you have to account for the electrical characteristics of wire: when the wire is very long ...

I first heard the name Oliver Heaviside when it was mentioned by linear-induction-motor-man Professor Eric Laithwite – to whom this blog’s name is a tribute. Although almost unheard of, Heaviside, a ...

As the field of players in "urban air mobility" (read: flying cars) get more crowded every day, the Larry Page-backed effort Kitty Hawk is trying a different approach with its latest vehicle: it's ...