The U.S. Navy has quietly written a small but telling check to a company working on a solar‑electric aircraft that can stay ...

The U.S. Navy has awarded Skydweller a $1.4 million contract to develop electric propulsion as it explores all-electric ...

GREENVILLE (WLUK) -- For the first time in the airport's history, a fully electric plane has landed at Appleton International Airport. Staff were invited to learn about the fully electric ALIA CX300.

It's an electric plane that will charge using solar power, but also more than that. A recently completed project also is the story of a friendship created among those who built it, and young people ...

Another air record has been (unofficially) broken as a prop-driven solar/electric aircraft reached the highest altitude yet for its type. On August 12, 2025, a modified Elektra One reached 31,237 feet ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gaurav Sharma is a London-based analyst who covers energy & ESG. In a bid to reduce its carbon footprint, the global aviation ...

It's not every day aviation history is made, but June 2025 marked a real milestone for New York and the world of electric flight. For the first time, a passenger-carrying electric airplane landed at ...

UK air taxi startup Vertical Aerospace scored a win for the eVTOL scene. In a world-first, its VX4 electric airplane prototype flew from one airport to another. The vertical take-off and landing ...

More than 117 years after Seattle residents first saw a flying machine in the sky, a unique aircraft over Jet City can still turn heads. That happened this week with the arrival of Beta Technologies‘ ...

Recently, the Alia CX 300, an innovative new aircraft running entirely on electricity, marked the first time an electric airplane had flown between two major Norwegian cities. For a country intent on ...