A San Diego-based company has unveiled a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter jet platform. Shield AI’s new concept is ...

Control, can be flown in the U.S. without a license, but using its more advanced features may breach FAA rules.

DARPA's VTOL X-plane initiative takes a cocktail of totally innovative technologies and puts them together in one aircraft design that could very well solve some of the chronic limitations of vertical ...

Sikorsky is developing HEX, a fully autonomous, hybrid-electric tilt-wing VTOL demonstrator, marking its first integration of hybrid-electric propulsion and advanced autonomy. HEX is the first in a ...

For decades, aircraft designers seeking to improve vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities have endured a substantial set of interrelated challenges. Dozens of attempts have been made to ...

Four companies have been tapped to design the next generation of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). They are Aurora Flight ...

I was taking a peek at Lockheed Martin big defense contractors' recent patent filings the other day when I came accross this whopper. A patent for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft with three ...

The age of UAVs has well and truly dawned but designers aren't resting on their laurels when it comes to improving the capabilities of these multi-talented aircraft. One innovation that's come to the ...

The Bell D-188 was one of the most extreme aircraft concepts of the 1950s, designed to take off vertically using eight jet ...

New York, Oct. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Electric VTOL (eVTOL) Aircraft Market - A Global and Regional Analysis: Focus on Design, Range, Use ...

There’s no doubt that VTOLs will eventually be a thing. Even recent testings by manufacturers have led to some very promising results. The award-winning VTOL design you see here, may, one day, be ...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, recently released pictures and video from one of its new projects: the VTOL Experimental Plane Program. The project aims to create a ...