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 ...

British VTOL maker Vertical Aerospace announced it is getting ready to perform a piloted transition test flight of the Valo ...

The Generation 6 prototype of Wisk Aero's Cora autonomous vertical take-off and landing aircraft flew for the first time.

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 ...

GM Design has unveiled the P5 VTOL Concept, one of four futuristic vehicles created exclusively for the reimagined Test Track attraction at Walt Disney World’s Epcot in Florida. The concept embodies a ...

Watch a VTOL drone in action as it delivers milk, showcasing the potential of drone delivery technology. This video highlights flight performance, delivery accuracy, and innovative VTOL design for ...

Abstract: In an era where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become integral to various industries, understanding the intricacies of their design is essential to future aerospace engineers. This ...

Lithuanian start-up Jetcopter is seeking investment of around $60 million to bring to market a six-seat vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, which it describes as a low-cost alternative to ...

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 ...

In the early 1940s, a former engineer named Alexander Weygers drew up plans for an aircraft that he called the Discopter. It was a one-person vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) craft that looked like ...

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 ...

Jetpack Aviation's David Mayman and Nelson Tyler have already brought honest-to-god jetpacks out of the pages of science fiction books and onto the market. Now, they plan to do the same with flying ...