DARPA's high-speed VTOL X-plane passes ground effect testing By Loz Blain. October 08, 2024 Facebook; ... high-speed VTOL manned cargo/troop transport uses a slatted fan-in-wing VTOL system.

In the early 60s, there were several studies into creating the first mass-produced vtol aircraft. A plane that could operate like a jet, and then at the same time, land vertically where needed.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Bell Helicopters to build the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) unmanned ...

A FedEx plane landed with its landing gear up, skidding off the runway in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2023 after a leak in a hydraulic hose caused the system to fail and a broken wire kept the ...