On this day in aviation history, February 19, 1957, the Bell X-14 made its first flight. This aircraft, capable of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and assembled from readily available components ...

Anduril Industries and Archer Aviation have come together to rapidly advance aerial warfare. This partnership aims to develop a next-generation hybrid-propulsion vertical-take-off-and-landing (VTOL) ...

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 ...

Runways are undesirable locations for military aircraft. Being tied to miles of concrete gives jet aircraft a built-in vulnerability as well as restricting their flexibility. At sea, it is extremely ...

When President Trump signed an executive order accelerating U.S. drone production and advanced air systems, many people focused their attention on defense. But embedded within that policy was ...

Joby Aviation on Thursday announced the first flight of its new turbine-electric, autonomous vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, marking a major step toward hybrid VTOL operations for commercial ...

It seems like we've been reporting about vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft for ages now, but somehow none of the companies involved in this young industry seems capable of really getting ...

The Army has detailed an extensive plan for evaluating hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) platforms and enabling technologies, with an aim to hold capability demonstrations between ...

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 ...

Joby Aviation announced its electric VTOL aircraft, which it is developing alongside L3Harris Technologies, had its first flight in California on Nov. 7. (Joby Aviation) Joby Aviation and L3Harris ...