Joby Aviation, Inc. (NYSE:JOBY) today announced the first flight of its turbine electric, autonomous VTOL aircraft. The ...

It seems like autonomous aircraft makers are indulging in a bit of oneupsmanship as Shield AI rolls out its X-BAT VTOL Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) that combines the ability to land and take ...

The fixed-wing VTOL UAV market is projected to grow from USD 0.69 billion in 2025 to USD 1.20 billion by 2030, registering a ...

Although glamorous and exciting in nature, the arrival of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, many of them made by companies that were not even around a few years ago, raises some concerns ...

We are used to thinking about vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft as being powered by spinning blades. After all, just like helicopters, they need spinning blades to lift off and move around ...

What could be cooler than a jet-powered equivalent of a quadcopter drone? Well, how about a larger passenger-carrying version? That's exactly what aviation firm FusionFlight has just revealed, in the ...

AV’s Wildcat has tail-mounted lift propellers for vertical flight and a nose-mounted prop for wing-borne cruise. Credit: Aerovironment AeroVironment’s Wildcat has transitioned to wing-borne forward ...

DARPA has completed flight-testing of a sub-scale version of a novel aircraft design as part of its Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) X-Plane program, and is proceeding with work to develop a ...

Defence contractor L3Harris and electric aircraft developer Joby are teaming up to develop a new class of military-focused hybrid-electric rotorcraft. The pair announced the partnership on 1 August, ...

Boeing’s Collaborative Combat Rotorcraft (CCR) is one adaptation of Boeing’s Collaborative Transformational Rotorcraft (CxR) – a modular, unmanned, multi-mission autonomous tiltrotor concept. Boeing ...

The advances of Aurora’s demonstrator ensure that the company’s fan-in-wing VTOL experiments will extend well beyond DARPA’s SPRINT. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, is poised to redefine ...

Fresh from losing out on Lilium's assets to Archer Aviation, Dutch firm Ambitious Air Mobility Group (AAMG) has turned its ...