After successful preliminary operational tests, Northwest UAV (NWUAV) and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are working on further developments towards a test flight of their hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system. McMinnville, OR: Through a cooperative agreement, NWUAV and NRL have ...

GE Aviation announced a teaming agreement with Hybrid Project to provide a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) UAV designed for high endurance commercial applications at scale. Flight testing will commence in Q4 this year with commercial availability targeted for Q1 2020. The agreement enables ...

The Northwest UAV NW-44 Heavy-Fuel Engine has reached the noteworthy milestone of logging over 21,000 operational hours. With an innovative design that focuses on maintainability, Northwest UAV’s NW-44 UAV Engine has developed a reputation for being the UAV industry’s reliable, cost effective ...

Clean tech company H2GO Power has completed what it claims as the the world’s first successful test flight of a 3D-printed hydrogen-powered UAV. The flight took place in Boston in late August as part of a partnership with Ballard Unmanned Systems Inc – the UAV arm of Ballard Power Systems. ...

The NW-44 Heavy Fuel Engine – Northwest UAV’s purpose-built propulsion system for small unmanned aircraft systems – has now successfully logged over 1500 flights in combat conditions. As the NW-44 Engine passes this noteworthy milestone, it continues to set Aviation Grade standards for reliability ...

Hirth sets out its future vision for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) highlighting superior power-to-weight ratio as the key to extended range and fuel economy. At this year’s AUVSI XPONENTIAL, global two-stroke pioneers Hirth Engines demonstrated its future innovation programme and showcase the ...

UAV Turbines is now ground testing its first-of-its-kind, lightweight, high-performance microturbine propulsion system for small, unmanned aircraft UAV Turbines, Inc. (UAVT), a pioneer of microturbine technology, today announced the introduction of its Monarch RP family of microturbine engines, ...

NanoSUN, a hydrogen storage and refueling company, is pleased to announce that it has received a purchase order from Ballard Unmanned Systems, Inc. (“Ballard”) to supply a proof-of-concept hydrogen refueler (https://nanosun.co.uk/drones) to complement Ballard’s FCair™ hydrogen fuel cell power ...

HES Energy Systems, the aerospace company founded in Singapore in 2009, is working to change the electric aerospace industry by optimizing smaller aircraft and drones powered by hydrogen and scaling up. They have worked with other aerospace companies, universities, and government agencies ...