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​ We are quickly approaching an age of technology which will change everyday life as we know it. In our lifetime, we will witness the introduction of Artificial Intelligence, self-driving cars and even flying cars. In this article, I want to focus on self-driving cars – What technology is available today? When could we see a full transition happen? And what are the implicati...

Hybrid Air Vehicles’ Airlander 10, the world’s longest aircraft, is ready to go into full production following the award of Production Organisation Approval (POA) from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The milestone follows hot on the heels of October 2018’s award of Design Organisation Approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). This puts HAV in a “strong po...

Boeing had a record-breaking 2018 after delivering 806 aircraft, far in excess of 2017’s previous record annual performance of 763. Even as Boeing delivered more aircraft to customers, its order backlog continues to grow with net orders now totalling 893, valued by the company at $143.7bn. This has increased the company’s order backlog to seven years worth of production. The...

Flying Cars have been a farfetched talking point for decades now, but are we finally starting to see a surge in the development of these types of technologies? Countless technology start-ups have been cropping up all over the world with promises to deliver these amazing and seemingly fictional capabilities by as soon as 2022. But even more than this; large investment compani...

Another spacefaring first has been achieved as the Chinese Chang’e 4 vehicle has successfully landed on the far side of the Moon. The probe, which contains a lander and a rover, touched down in the Von Karman Crater in the Moon’s South Pole Aitken Basin on Thursday 4th January. The unmanned craft is tasked with scientific research on the region’s makeup which is scarred from...

Rolls-Royce is leading a consortium of UK companies aiming to develop a fully electric aircraft capable of achieving speeds of over 300mph. 2020 has been pencilled in as a target flight date where it aims to smash the current electric speed record of 213mph which would firmly position the project and the UK as world leaders in electric aviation. The single-seater aircraft is...