Officials from the Department of War posted the fourth collection of declassified UAP materials on July 10. The package holds forty files gathered from the Pentagon, NASA, the CIA, the FBI, and the Energy Department. Fourteen documents, nineteen videos, along with four audio files and three images complete the group.
Certification came through in spring 2026 for something pilots of small planes have wanted for decades. Shark Aero’s Shark 600 now carries the first active turbulence-cancelling system approved for a light aircraft. The optional setup cuts the jarring effects of rough air by more than 80 percent, according to the developers. A 600-kilogram-class machine suddenly behaves as if it carries the mass and stability of something far heavier.
Sarla Aviation just finished a full round of flight tests with its Sylla 1.0. The 700-kilogram machine with a 7.5-meter wingspan became the heaviest electric aircraft ever to take off vertically in India. Engineers put it through more than 500 tests and over 18 hours of flight time during a six-month campaign in southern India.
Inside a vast exhibition hall in Bologna, one student stepped onto a platform three meters above the floor and gave the aircraft a firm push. The wings extended farther than a city bus is long, yet the structure left the edge cleanly and settled into a steady glide. It traveled 59 meters before its nose met a line of columns at the far end of the space. That single launch secured the Guinness World Record for the largest paper airplane ever built and flown. Engineering students from the University of Pisa created the aircraft, known as ICARUS. It spans 20.04 meters from wingtip to wingtip, measures 7 meters in length, and weighs 28.49 kilograms at completion.
Joby Aviation and Toyota Motor Corporation announced today that they will create a joint venture to prepare for larger-scale production of electric air taxis. The move formalizes and expands a relationship that has existed quietly for nearly a decade.
Ramy RC has created something that blurs the line between model aircraft and full-scale engineering. His new Airbus A380 replica stretches 29 feet long with a 32-foot wingspan and weighs 800 pounds ready to fly. This 1/8-scale machine stands roughly 10 feet tall at the tip of its vertical stabilizer. It wears Lufthansa’s special centennial livery and has already completed multiple flights, including one that reached 103 mph.
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Doroni Aerospace has spent the better part of a decade moving from early garage experiments to a finished design it believes regular people could operate. The H1-X sits at the center of that effort. It is a two-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft built first for personal use rather than fleet service or air taxi routes.
Google rolled out an experimental flight simulator inside its web-based Earth viewer this week. The addition revives a tool long present in the desktop software and opens it to anyone who opens a browser tab. People have been able to access a version of this tool in the desktop software for years, though it stayed mostly out of sight. The web edition brings it to anyone with a browser and an internet connection without extra software.
