Embraer-backed Eve Air Mobility said this week it has conducted the first flight of the vertical take-off and landing design ...

The Generation 6 prototype of Wisk Aero's Cora autonomous vertical take-off and landing aircraft flew for the first time.

In modern research and development contexts, aerial robotics are expanding beyond their hobbyist origins. A forthcoming ...

From first deliveries, to first flights and plans for a new air taxi network, eVTOL companies Archer, AIR, Wisk and Elroy Air ...

The Army has begun to assess large drones that can take-off and land vertically or use short runways in order to inform ...

What if urban air taxis could, like birds, vary the configuration of their wings in flight? The answer to such questions could soon become reality through morphing wing technology assisted by ...

Four years ago, Arizona-based start-up Krossblade announced the SkyProwler, a prosumer VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) drone with retractable rotors. Now, the company is taking orders for the ...

Samad Aerospace says the design of its new two-seat VTOL concept, the Q-Starling, was inspired by everything from the P51 Mustang to the Hawk fighter jet to a Maserati, although there is also ...

Like bladeless Dyson fans on steroids, Jetoptera's unique aircraft propulsion systems look like pure sci-fi. But they're beginning to demonstrate some fascinating capabilities in testing, and the next ...

PteroDynamics, an innovator in autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft systems, and AeroVironment, Inc. ("AV" ...

For a long time fixed wing VTOL drones were tricky to work with, but with the availability of open source flight control and autopilot software this has changed. To make experimentation even easier, ...

There are lots of acronyms for electric aviation, but eVTOL has stood the test of time for 15 years. In August 2014, NASA unveiled its GL-10 "Greased Lightning" vectored-thrust eVTOL demonstrator with ...