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 ...

The video opens with a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner racing down the runway, then pitching up into a near-vertical climb that looks more like a fighter jet routine than a commercial airliner departure.

AltoVolo just flew a prototype of the Sigma. The hybrid VTOL aircraft can fly 500 miles, hit 220 mph, and makes 80 percent ...

It seems like forever ago that a series of companies started working on the next golden goose of civil aviation, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Luckily, we’re rapidly approaching the ...

A British start-up recently pulled off a key maneuver for electric vertical flight—but certification, infrastructure and demand will decide whether air taxis fill our skies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several companies are debuting electric vertical takeoff aircraft, with early models already flying recreationally and others ...

The still ongoing Singapore Air Show is proving to be a hit among the locals in particular and the larger Asian aerospace market in general, but it doesn’t seem to create a lot of waves elsewhere in ...

First eVTOL to complete two-way piloted transition – switching from helicopter mode to airplane mode and back again - under civil aviation Design Organisation Approval regulatory oversight Advances ...

These electric vertical takeoff-and-landing aircraft, known as eVTOLs, are small electric air taxis that take off and land like helicopters but fly more like airplanes. They hope to serve local and ...