The crowd at Randolph AFB fell silent as the C17 Globemaster III thundered down the runway and shot skyward in a near ...

The Bell D-188 was one of the most extreme aircraft concepts of the 1950s, designed to take off vertically using eight jet ...

San Diego-based Shield AI is developing a first of its kind fighter jet: a 2,000-mile-range pilotless plane that takes off and lands vertically and uses artificial intelligence to fly itself, even ...

Rendering of Elroy Air Chaparral cargo-carrying autonomous vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to be built in the U.S. by Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Inc. Nine years after its founding, ...

For vertical takeoff and landing aircraft known as VTOLs, the technical path from vertical takeoff to horizontal flight is anything but a straight line that can take years to achieve. But when it ...

eVTOLs enable vertical takeoff and landing, reducing urban congestion and pollution. Battery tech and autonomous systems are central to eVTOL functionality. Joby Aviation and Archer lead in FAA ...

You may soon drive to an airport, then fly home. Alef Aeronautics announced formal agreements with Half Moon Bay and Hollister airports to begin test operations of a road-legal, vertical-takeoff ...

Shield AI announced the unveiling of X-BAT, an AI-piloted, vertical takeoff and landing fighter jet designed for expeditionary and maritime operations in contested environments, this week. (Shield AI) ...