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 ...

Electric vertical take-off and landing is one of the very latest innovations in the aerospace industry. Also referred to as a ‘flying car’ or ‘air taxi’, one of these giant drone look-alikes could ...

We've seen lots of designs for vertical take-off and landing vehicles over the years, but none are quite as striking as the wings on HopFlyt's Cyclone. The curved wings have their root in a design ...

Insitu, the Boeing-owned developer of autonomous systems, has revealed what it calls a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) version of its Integrator uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV). The new aircraft, ...

Shield AI has revealed the X-BAT, a vertical take-off stealth jet designed for runway-free operations and powered by the firm’s Hivemind AI pilot. U.S. defense technology company Shield AI has ...

The development pace of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is accelerating, and not only in the U.S. and Asia. On the Old Continent, the only company that’s actively pursuing such a flying ...

The US military’s secretive technology development agency is advancing a programme to develop a vertical take-off and landing aircraft that is also capable of achieving fixed-wing jet speeds. The ...

Insitu is offering a vertical take-off option for the Integrator (designated RQ-21 Blackjack by the US Navy) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), using a new vehicle to pull it into the air for launch. The ...

This photo shows DJI EV50, a latest vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing hybrid drone, working on the northern slope of ...

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