GM Design has unveiled the P5 VTOL Concept, one of four futuristic vehicles created exclusively for the reimagined Test Track attraction at Walt Disney World’s Epcot in Florida. The concept embodies a ...
Once you have a great eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) concept ready to roll, it's time to find the right manufacturing partners. In the case of the French aircraft developer Ascendance ...
DARPA’s AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY program, known as ANCILLARY, shows six design concepts for a low-weight, large-payload, long-endurance VTOL uncrewed X-plane. The ...
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Lockheed’s 1950s VTOL fighter that never flew

The Lockheed CL-346 was a radical VTOL fighter concept designed to intercept bombers and deliver nuclear weapons without ...
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The Navy jet that could fold itself to land

Grumman’s G-674 and G-698 VTOL concepts featured radical designs that allowed parts of the aircraft to rotate for vertical ...
It sounds complicated, but the Cyclogyro technology is at the heart of this flying contraption that seems to be in a league of its own. It’s called the CycloRotor and it has just reached a milestone ...
Honda Aircraft's research arm, HRI, has received FAA approval to fly a subscale test model of its hybrid-electric VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft at its new dedicated R&D facility in San ...
Doors covering the embedded lift fans are open in the vertical flight phase. Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a refined concept for a fan-in-wing high-speed ...
DARPA has selected six companies to take concepts for a shipborne vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft through a preliminary design review (PDR) on the way to flying a planned X-plane ...
Vertical lift manufacturer Bell has delivered a test article to the US Air Force (USAF) that aims to demonstrate the company’s novel concept for a jet-powered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) ...
Another of the world’s top automakers is stepping into the world of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Honda Aircraft declined to share more about the approval, which is a special ...