Shield AI unveiled last week its development of a new X-BAT aircraft that may be the most unconventional concept of the new ...

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 ...

Shield AI's unmanned X-BAT flies using an autonomous core that could allow it to be a drone wingman and team up with a crewed ...

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 ...

Archer Aviation Inc. ACHR, as a prominent electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer, is aiming to transform urban air mobility through its flagship aircraft, Midnight. Built for ...

Sept. 12 (UPI) --Two California-based tech firms on Friday joined a Federal Aviation Administration pilot program meant to speed up the delivery of advanced air mobility vehicles, commonly known as ...