ParaJet SkyCar is available for pre-order. Previously, Parajet said test flights of the skycar might happen this September, with a possible release date of early 2010. Expected to start selling toward the end of next year for an estimated price of £50,000 ($81,700), now pre-order for refundable deposits of £10,000 ($16,338). Shipping in late 2010.
Top stealth-plane experts have re-created a radical, nearly forgotten Nazi aircraft: the Horten 2-29. This retro-futuristic fighter plane is recreated as part of a documentary last year to uncover the secrets of the technological advancement of the Nazi forces. A term from the Northrop Grumman defense-contracting corporation used original Nazi blueprints and the only surviving Ho 2-29, which has been stored in a U.S. government facility for more than 50 years.
Diamond Aircraft is offering its new DA42 L360 twin to the public for the very first time. Designed especially for pilots who truly want to go places safely and in style, the innovative Diamond DA42 L360 aircraft allows you to tread where others dare not go, over the rugged terrain or open water. The aircraft’s twin engine redundancy, ice certification, and extreme range lets you hover the places you never thought of. It also touts counter-rotating engine mounting, making the aircraft easier to control if one engine is lost unfortunately.
A business man is always short on time as he is busy jet-setting to clinch deals all over the world. It often becomes a trouble for him to wait around for commercial flights and planning his schedule around it. He often gets impatient thinking how many deals he would have cracked in the time he wasted around in the airports. It is to address this problem that the concept of business jets, more commonly known as bizjets, became so popular. To cater to such clients, Hawker Beechcraft Corporation has upped their ante by unveiling the Hawker 450XP.
Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy successfully crossed the English Channel using his homemade jet-propelled wing Friday, the first man to perform the feat. Yves Rossy makes a safe landing after successfully crossing the English Channel. Rossy leapt from a plane more than 8,800 feet or a mile and a half from the ground, before firing up his jets. He made the 22-mile trip from Calais in France to Dover in England in a little under 15 minutes.
The new ElectraFlyer-C is an electric conversion of an older kit plane called the Moni. The new derivation uses Lithium Ion Polymer batteries to save weight and will fly at a max speed of 90mph for 90 minutes. When you’re done, you simply plug it into the nearest mains power socket for a recharge. How’s that for cheap flying, eh? The only downside is the cramped cockpit, which suggests that anyone over size skinny will not be welcome aloft in this aircraft. Ah well…it was a nice dream… No price as yet, but expect to pay around $20,000 or so.
They say ‘to possess a private jet worth millions, you need a business worth billions and furthermore, etiquettes worth trillions’. My job here is to cater to the first two aspects and leave the last one for the riches and thus I agree to the part where they talk about possessing billions. Obviously, it is those billions you need to possess the $21 Million Hawker 4000 private plane also called the Hawker 4000 Business Jet. A perfect place to hold those ultra-secret meetings catering to the future business plans, the Hawker 4000 houses avant-garde features viz.
Have you remebered the Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic Mothership. Today Virgin Founder, Sir Richard Branson and SpaceShipOne designer, Burt Rutan, pulled back the hangar doors on the new WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) carrier aircraft. It is the world's largest all carbon composite aircraft. The vehicle has a maximum altitude over 50,000 ft and its U.S. coast-to-coast range will allow the spaceship to be ferried on long duration flights. Powered by four Pratt and Whitney PW308A engines.