In more recent years Kareem Aircraft’s JHL heavy-lift VTOL craft, as well as Oliver VTOL’s hexplane six-engine concept have been examined. But another VTOL concept may be superior. Two aerospace ...

Bell will design and build a high-speed VTOL demonstrator for DARPA’s SPRINT program, as Aurora exits the competition.

DARPA named Bell Textron to proceed with the next phase of its SPRINT X-Plane project, to design and build an aircraft that ...

A small Norwegian company is developing an aircraft that aims to take advantage of the "best of two worlds": the Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) properties of a helicopter and the high-speed ...

Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft generally use propellers, but these are often mistakenly called "rotors," creating confusion.

From hyper-speed jets to electric planes, autonomous air taxis, and vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, the concepts in the world of aircraft design are pushing the boundaries of ...

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 ...

Sikorsky released 3D renderings of three self-flying, hybrid-electric VTOL concepts, including an autonomous helicopter. [Courtesy: Sikorsky] ...

This unusually-looking VTOL is equipped with propulsion units called CycloRotors, based on a physics principle that was used in the maritime industry ...

Supernal debuts S-A2 eVTOL aircraft concept V-tail, five-passenger aircraft builds on the vison of the S-A1, designed with a priority on safety and a focus on sustainability.

Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a refined concept for a fan-in-wing high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft as it receives funding to proceed to a preliminary design review ...

The U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX program initiated a market research program last year to encourage development of a high-speed vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The AFWERX challenge ...