All components are changing with supercapacitors sometimes replacing or partly replacing batteries and also new types of battery, energy harvesting, power electronics and structure powering growth.
Disruptive change is now the norm and the fruits of all this are truly spectacular; including such things as the Marian fast- surface boat that acts as a submarine when necessary, the fixed-wing plane that will stay aloft for five years on sunshine and the flying jet ski. The race is on to make extremely short take-off and landing for personal planes and air taxis, some that take-off and land vertically in your garden or from the "pocket airport" on top of a regular airport building. This report covers:
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