Important Innovations

  JetX & Node Air Partnership                                                  Source:  Node Air Brand New Way to Travel Two Florida-based innovation companies, JetX and Node Air, are developing a unique transportation system involving detachable pods that connect to air and ground vehicles.  Here are the pertinent facts: A unique new form of integrated air and ground travel that is autonomous Ground transportation is provided by a passenger pod on an EV chassis that drives to the customer's location to pick them up The EV chassis has its own autonomous driving system, sensors, electric motors, batteries and steering Passenger is driven to a take-off point where an autonomous drone is waiting EV chassis releases the passenger pod and the drone secures the pod from above it Drone, with its own autonomous, aviation system flies the passenger to their destination, where another land chassis takes them to their final destination such as a hotel Travel system is designed for maximum

  JetX & Node Air Partnership                                                  Source:  Node Air Brand New Way to Travel Two Florida-based innovation companies, JetX and Node Air, are developing a unique transportation system involving detachable pods that connect to air and ground vehicles.  Here are the pertinent facts: A unique new form of integrated air and ground travel that is autonomous Ground transportation is provided by a passenger pod on an EV chassis that drives to the customer's location to pick them up The EV chassis has its own autonomous driving system, sensors, electric motors, batteries and steering Passenger is driven to a take-off point where an autonomous drone is waiting EV chassis releases the passenger pod and the drone secures the pod from above it Drone, with its own autonomous, aviation system flies the passenger to their destination, where another land chassis takes them to their final destination such as a hotel Travel system is designed for maximum

  World's 1st Aquatic Utility Vehicle                                    Source:  Shadow Six Racing The Typhoon The Typhoon is the world's first aquatic utility vehicle (AUV) or water SUV.  It is the highly innovative invention of West Palm Beach, Florida-based motorsports company Shadow Six Racing.  It's a gas-guzzling UTV water demon.  The very rugged, one-of-a-kind, utility vehicle is designed for both motorsports and defense applications.  Tech Specs & More The unique vehicle weights 2,365 pounds and can carry 3 passengers.  It is powered by twin, 4-cylinder supercharged Yamaha GP 1800 SCHO R engines. The engines are located in 2, custom built carbon composite racing hulls designed like 2 jet skis.  They are built to withstand speeds up to 90 mph in extreme water conditions with superb performance. The body of the vehicle is composed of aerospace grade titanium and carbon fiber. The AUV is 130 feet in length.  It can be purchased for $250,399. The company says it ha

Triton's Luxury Submersible with Panoramic Underwater Views                                                                                                Source:  Triton Like an Entertainment Center Under the Sea There is a front row seat available for you to explore life underwater.  Florida-based submarine maker Triton has created an underwater excursion vehicle that provides panoramic views as you travel through the water.  The Triton 660/9 AVA and the smaller Triton 660/7 are uniquely designed submersibles that offer plenty of space.  Thanks to its free-form pressurized acrylic hull, Triton has three times the interior space of a typical submersible of a similar footprint.  It can comfortably carry eight passengers and a pilot for underwater expeditions.  The company says it's designed for entertainment and adventure.  They add it can serve as an underwater entertainment venue, including a luxury restaurant, cocktail bar and even a wedding venue. Journey Undersea The Trito

  NASA Is Partnering With Orlando, FL on eVTOLs                                                                                      Source:  Lillium Preparations Underway to Welcome Urban Air Mobility Vehicles NASA is partnering with the city of Orlando, Florida to welcome, develop facilities and infrastructure and establish a regulatory environment to accommodate flying taxis and flying cars.  The city of Orlando's first vertiport for vertical takeoffs and landings of eventual fleets of flying taxis will be built by Lillium, the German based leading developer of electric vertical take-off and landing flying taxis (eVTOLS).  The first vertiport in the US is planned for the Lake Nona area of Orlando.  The vertiport is expected to cost $25 million with two landing pads and the capacity to charge 8 vehicles simultaneously.  Many more vertiports in Florida are planned from Miami to Palm Beach and beyond.  It's the beginning of a revolutionary new way to travel within cities and ci

  The Zero Emissions Travel Revolution                                                  Source:  Lilium Lilium Acing Tests Flights and Going Public  Powered by 36 electric engines, Germany based Lilium's 5th generation demonstrator eVTOL is a sterling example of the zero emissions travel revolution that is rapidly emerging.  Lilium continues to go through test flights which demonstrate the aircraft's ability to very quietly vertically take off, fly, hover and vertically land like a helicopter.  The 36 electric engines are stacked across the wings.  The e-engines are powered by 72 battery module systems inside the aircraft.  Lilium has a top cruising speed of 175 mph at an altitude of 10,000 feet with a range of more than 155 miles on a charge.  Its first market for commercial operations is Florida with 14 cities as hubs for air taxi service within the next 3 to 4 years.  Flying taxis or eVTOLs are a disruptive, zero emissions, urban air mobility type of vehicle that are about t

  World First - Strand Craft V8 Daytona GT                                                                 Source:  Strand Craft V8 Daytona GT Powerful Vehicle For Fun on the Water Norwegian superyacht designer Kurt Strand has created the world's 1st V8 engine powered jet ski.  The powerful watercraft is called the Strand Craft V8 Daytona GT.  Strand is currently based in Florida and jet skis are among his favorite past times.  This is the most powerful jet ski ever created.  It is a watercraft first. Strand Craft V8 Daytona GT The jet ski is sleek and big:  17 feet long, 5 feet wide and it weighs 1,250 pounds.  It is powered by a supercharged 6.2 liter aluminum V8 engine.  Strand calls the watercraft "beautiful, powerful and luxurious...a model that marries power and speed to grace and elegance."  This concept took Strand five years to develop. There appears to be nothing zero emissions, at the moment, about this incredible piece of technology.  It is using a V8 engine t

Underground Passenger Loop Between Downtown Fort Lauderdale & Fort Lauderdale Beach Source:  The Boring Company's Vegas Tunnel The Las Olas Loop Elon Musk and his Boring Company have proposed an underground passenger transit tunnel for the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida to attain quick, easy access for residents and tourists from its downtown area of Las Olas to its popular Atlantic Ocean beaches. The proposal is at the request of the city of Fort Lauderdale.  If approved, the passenger transit tunnel will be called "The Las Olas Loop".  A vote on the proposed transit tunnel will be taken by the city government on Tuesday, July 6th.  If approved, it will be the first "loop tunnel" on the east coast and the second in the world.  Musk and his not-so-boring, Boring Company have completed a transportation tunnel for Las Vegas.  The Las Vegas Convention Center Loop became operational in June. Unique Travel Technology The Las Vegas Loop is 2 miles long and exten

  Space Balloons For a Leisurely Space Visit Source:  Space Perspective Space Trip With No Rockets & No Rocket Fuel Space Perspective, a human space flight company based in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is offering a unique space adventure.  Luxury balloon trips to 20 miles above the Earth into the stratosphere. There are no rockets and no rocket fuel involved.  The company says it is a safer and smoother way to experience the edges of space.  In fact, the approach is completely different from a rocket flight.  The space craft takes off at a leisurely pace of 12 mph.  A huge hot air balloon gently carries the passenger capsule aloft into the upper atmosphere and then gently returns it for a splashdown in the ocean, according to the company. Passenger Tickets to Space Space Perspective has started selling tickets for the first trip in late 2024 aboard the Spaceship Neptune.  It's a hot air balloon type space vehicle that gets lift from hydrogen.  The company is taking $1,000 deposits

  Lilium Flying Taxis Establishing a Florida Network Source:  Lilium Hailing A Taxi Ride in the Sky Germany's Lilium flying taxis are spreading their electric wings in US skies.  Lilium is establishing, what it calls, a vertiport for operations in Orlando, Florida.  And it is also receiving interest and support from government officials in Palm Beach County, Florida to provide flying taxi service between Palm Beach and Miami.  It would cut the travel time from an hour and a half to twenty minutes.  Lilium is one of the hottest e-VTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) vehicles in the world.  It is working to first establish a Florida network for e-VTOL taxi service in the US.  Lilium is partnering with Spain-based Ferrovial, that develops and maintains airports like Heathrow in London, to roll out US operations. Lilium's target launch markets are Florida and Germany. Operations will launch in 2024. Cutting Edge Aviation Innovation Lilium is at the cutting edge of aviation

  Aerion of Florida's Pipeline of SSTs                                                                                Source:  Aerion AS2                                                       Source:  Aerion AS3 Concept Rendering LA TO Tokyo in Less Than 3 Hours A new supersonic passenger jet is under development at Aerion aviation in Orlando, Florida.  The Aerion AS3 is a Mach 4 + commercial jet.  The company says it can fly from LA to Tokyo in less than 3 hours and from New York to London in less than an hour.  The SST can carry 50 passengers and has a range of 7,000 nautical miles.  And it will be operational by the end of this decade. NASA Partnership Aerion is working with NASA's Langley Research Center on the AS3. Concept and design work are currently underway. The company unveiled a rendering of the concept yesterday.  The SST will travel at an estimated speed of 4,000 mph.  More details are expected later in 2021. More SSTs in the R&D Pipeline Aerion plans on develo

US Air Force's X-37B Spaceplane - Clouded in Mysteries & Missions Successfully Lands After Record Orbit The US Air Force announced that its top secret, experimental spaceplane - the X-37B - just successfully landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in FL after a record flight. The spaceplane has been more than two years - 780 days - in orbital flight.  This is its longest test mission for a group of military technologies.  The X-37B is an experimental, test spaceship.  It was built by Boeing, is operated by the US Air Force and was launched into its latest mission aboard a SpaceX rocket. Clandestine Missions This is the spaceplane's 5th mission.  What the missions have entailed are for the most part a mystery.  They are top secret missions.  But we do know the purpose is to demonstrate new technologies, such as propulsion systems, avionics and spacecraft reentry systems for what the Air Force hopes will be a "reliable, reusable, unmanned space test pl

Highly Advanced Robotics from FAU Source:  FAU's Astro Astro, One of the World's Smartest Robodogs Florida Atlantic University's Astro is a very smart robodog.  It's loaded with cameras, sensors, radar imaging, a directional microphone and four teraflops of processing power which enables up to 4 trillion computations per second.  Astro learns like your dog, through repetition, trial and error. It could be a big player in search and rescue, bomb detection, work as a service dog and much more.  For a great news blog on this new invention, go to Important Innovations Collection: Smart Robodog Learns Like a Dog : Astro May Be One of the World's Smartest Dogs Source:  Florida Atlantic University New Invention from Florida Atlantic University...