DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s hard to find a totally original concept in the eVTOL world. Since 2016, some 400 concepts, proposals and designs have been ...

Bell just completed the Critical Design Review for DARPA's SPRINT program, meaning it can build its next-gen X-76 VTOL aircraft.

To avoid relying on full-size aircraft carriers, Grumman proposed a VTOL aircraft that could operate from helicopter-sized platforms on smaller ships. The G-674 concept rotated the rear fuselage and ...

According to the company, Atea will have a range of 400 km with 80 percent reduced carbon emissions. [Courtesy: Ascendance Flight Technologies] Ascendance Flight Technologies unveiled Atea, a new five ...

Four companies have been tapped to design the next generation of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). They are Aurora Flight ...

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 ...

American VTOL maker Pivotal announced a deal with Hyde County, North Carolina, that could see the deployment of the Helix VTOL in the hands of paramedics.

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 ...

Nine aerospace manufacturers will each design an autonomous ship-based reconnaissance aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) for the Pentagon’s secretive technology incubator, the ...

The concept of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft has been circulating for decades, but only these past few years have they become a much-needed transportation tool that could play a major ...

When designing an aircraft for the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) industry one would think most of the aircraft architecture would focus on vertical lift capabilities. However, German ...