Magpie Aviation announced a novel new approach to electric airplanes on Monday. Today’s battery technology (including CATL’s new, more efficient one) severely limits the practicality of zero-emission ...

Ordinarily, airliners have to run their jet engines in order to taxi along the runway – this uses a lot of fuel, plus it generates a lot of carbon emissions. A new in-ground electrical towing system, ...

In the ATS system, the aircraft nosegear sits on a tow dolly on an electric pull car that rides a monorail through a below-ground channel. Credit: Aircraft Towing Systems World Wide Late in 2020, ...

AIRCRAFT TOWING SYSTEMS WORLD WIDE, OK has developed an automated aircraft towing system prototype that uses electric-powered pull car/tow dolly and underground channel system; testing is slated to ...