The Martin 262 was a unique proposal for a Cold War-era naval interceptor capable of launching from convoy ships using ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Aurora Flight Sciences developed the "LightningStrike," a plane that will take off vertically, thereby rendering airport runways obsolete. Story and editing by Carl ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has finished its conceptual design of an experimental vertical-takeoff-and-landing plane for the Pentagon and is moving into the next phase. Aurora's blended-wing design for ...

An curved arrow pointing right. You've seen a helicopter do this but not a plane. Millionaires in the future could ride these jets that take off and land vertically without the need for a runway.

Austria’s CycloTech has completed the first flight of its BlackBird cycloidal-rotor electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) demonstrator. The first flight on March 27 came just 11 months after ...

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Turbofans provided the high thrust-to-weight ratio required for vertical takeoff. Liberal use of composites ... accidents and never achieved free flight. By then the program had burned through ...

Chinese national airframer AVIC is conducting tests with two new electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, as EHang’s EH216-S makes its first flight in Mexico. Research and ...

KUBINKA /Moscow Region/, August 21. /TASS/. Russia is developing a prototype of a completely new vertical take-off plane on the instruction of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Deputy Prime ...

With ReFEx (the Reusability Flight Experiment), the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is developing a technology demonstrator for the vertical take-off and ...

The PteroDynamics’ Transwing UAV is not only autonomous but also uses a folded wing design that enables vertical take-off and virtually seamless transition to horizontal flight — sometimes compared to ...

Canadian start-up Horizon Aircraft has almost wrapped up flight tests of a half-scale version of its Cavorite X7 – a hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft designed for ...