The EHang E H Two Sixteen S, the Sixteen-Rotor Air Taxi With No Pilot Onboard, and the Chinese Certificate That Beat America's eVTOLs to the Punch. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
The Open Fan and CFM's RISE Program, the Unducted Engine Betting That the Next Big Efficiency Jump Comes From Taking the Cowling Off. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
Auto-GCAS, the F-Sixteen Ground Collision System That Rolls the Airplane Upright and Pulls You Out of a Dive While You're Unconscious. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
Aireon, the Iridium NEXT Constellation, and the Sixty-Six Satellites That Finally Let Controllers See Airplanes Over the Open Ocean. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
The Sierra Space Dream Chaser, the Lifting-Body Spaceplane That Comes Home on a Runway Like an Airplane Instead of Splashing Into the Ocean. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
Archer Aviation's Midnight, the Twelve-Rotor Tilt eVTOL, and the Back-to-Back Hop Strategy That Bets Battery Physics Favors Short Trips. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
Electra's Blown-Lift eSTOL, the EL-Nine, and the Startup Betting That the Fastest Way to Electrify Flight Is a Very Long Wing and a Very Short Runway. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
REGENT Seagliders, Ground Effect Flight, and the Electric Boat-Plane Betting That the Future of Coastal Travel Skims the Waves Instead of Climbing Above Them. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
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