The unusual Transwing aircraft design has the Navy's interest. The PteroDynamics CEO told BI the trick to creating it came ...

The X-13 was developed in the 1950s, at a time when aerospace research was perhaps at its most fervent. The Ryan X-13 ...

VTOL X-Plane showcased ambitious goals for vertical flight and speed, yet program cancellation exposed new directions in ...

The flying ATEA demonstrator will have two ENGINeUS electric motors built by Safran Electrical & Power, each developing more ...

Former Volocopter chief test pilot Paul Stone has joined eVTOL rival Vertical Aerospace in a major boost for the future ...

A French startup called Ascendance is working on a five-people hybrid vertical take-off and landing aircraft called ATEA.

To make experimentation even easier, [Stephen Carlson] and other researchers from the RoboWork Lab at the University of Nevada created the MiniHawk, a 3D printed VTOL aircraft for use a test bed ...

[Peter Ryseck]’s Mini QBIT quadrotor biplane brings in some of the efficiency of fixed-wing flight, without all the complexity usually associated with VTOL aircraft. The Mini QBIT is just a 3 ...

Two other developments took place in Oct. 2024, as DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) previously contracted Sikorsky to equip the U.S. Army’s experimental fly-by-wire UH-60 Black ...

The Ryan X-13 Vertijet was an experimental aircraft built to test ... But the Air Force, without an operational need for a VTOL aircraft, chose not to pursue further development of the X-13.

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company has successfully validated the advanced control laws to successfully fly a ‘rotor blown ...