Have you ever heard of the "VTOL" flight concept? VTOL is an acronym that stands for "vertical take-off and landing." ...

City leaders are exploring the possibility of electric planes landing in downtown Tallahassee in the not-too-distant future ...

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 ...

VTOL stands for "vertical takeoff and landing." The aircraft takes off and lands like a helicopter, but flies like an airplane. With a top speed of 460 mph, he X-Plane will be 50 percent faster ...

Big changes and milestones at Elroy Air—named for the Jetsons son, building autonomous, hybrid, vertical takeoff and landing ...

Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR) of San Jose said it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Costa Mesa-based Anduril Industries to develop a hybrid vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft for ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The VTOL X-Plane is scheduled to take its first flight in 2018 and will be unlike any vehicle ever made. It can takeoff and land like a helicopter, fly as fast as a ...

[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 ...

Carmakers are both going it alone and partnering with existing aircraft manufacturers and startups ... cheaper than today’s chopper rides. Some VTOL makers plan commercialization within a ...