Boeing company Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a flying-wing design with embedded lift fans as its candidate for a DARPA program to build a high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) X-plane.

The Manta vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fixed-wing utilizes a Y3 configuration with a tilting rotor design, combining the advantages of multirotor hover capability with the efficient cruising ...

British VTOL maker AltoVolo started accepting orders for the Sigma hybrid electric take-off and landing aircraft, no word ...

Hood Tech Mechanical has developed a flying launch and recovery system (FLARES) that uses a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to launch and recover ...

Cluj-based startup BraveX Aero aims to become one of the leading European manufacturers of industrial drones with extended autonomy and high flight capacity by 2030. The company already operates an ...

What if your car could fly? That's the basic question behind Jetoptera's ongoing mission to create a fluidic propulsion system that makes aerial mobility more commonplace. Enter the company's newest ...

When one thinks about military drones they tend to image the largest of them, things like the RQ-4 Global Hawk or the MQ-1 Predator. These are also some of the most powerful presently flying in the ...

Sikorsky has been flying its Rotor Blown Wing (RBW) vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) prototype over the past year and a half to evaluate the design and has briefed the U.S. Army on the aircraft ...

Imagine if you could soar through the skies without leaving your seat. Well, Franky Zapata is on track to making that a reality. The French inventor, who also happens to be a former Jet Ski champ, ...