The world of VTOLs is fast expanding and promises to forever change the way air travel is made. There are several driving forces behind this expansion, ranging from the need to declutter our very ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has assigned the designation X-76 to its high-speed vertical takeoff and landing aircraft prototype under the SPRINT program, a step that follows a formal ...
When someone mentions vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) jet aircraft, the Harrier "Jump Jet" immediately springs to mind — and with good reason. The AV-8B Harrier is a proven ground-attack aircraft ...
Out of all the eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) concepts gearing up to launch commercial services by 2025, Lilium claims to be the only jet. The German air mobility startup is also one ...
DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell ...
The Sirius Jet will fly up to 1,150 miles (1,851 km) at speeds up to 323 mph (520 km/h) on a clean liquid-hydrogen powertrain. It'll rise vertically off a pad thanks to a deflected vectored thrust ...
We got a glimpse at what a new cross between a helicopter and a jet aircraft might look like after Bell released a new image. It's of a model used in wind tunnel tests of its entry in DARPA's Speed ...
Against the silver-gray sky in the old film reel, the bulbous jet lurches upwards like a flying saucer in an old Ray Harryhausen film. The Short SC1 aircraft, a British-built experimental plane, was ...
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) ...
Iran’s new defense minister has suggested that his country enhance its air force by developing and building fighter aircraft with a vertical take-off and landing, VTOL, capability, also known as jump ...
The Lilium Jet is a proposed eVTOL (electric Vertical Take Off and Landing) aircraft that the German company Lilium GmbH has claimed it will bring to the market ‘soon’, which would made it the first ...