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 ...
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The VTOL plane that was easier than a jet - Bell X-22

Bell and Lockheed built the X-22A around four tilting ducted fans, aiming for a compact transport that could lift off ...
Bell's High-Speed Vertical Takeoff and Landing (HSVTOL) test article is at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico to test key features of its HSVTOL concept including prop-rotors that fold in-flight.
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Lockheed’s Mach 2.2 VTOL fighter - CL-346

In 1956, the US Air Force asked Lockheed to design a VTOL jet that could climb, intercept bombers, and deliver a 1,000 lb ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The latest addition to the legendary X-plane family is Bell Textron’s demonstrator for the Speed and Runway Independent ...
London startup Lyte Aviation is thinking big when it comes to VTOL aircraft. Forget your piddly five-seaters, Lyte says its first aircraft will be a 44-seat monster with a 300-km/h (186-mph) top speed ...