We're not yet at a point where vertical take-off and landing aircraft serve the needs of city dwellers, but we're rapidly getting there. In the span of just a single week, two of the companies working ...

We are used to thinking about vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft as being powered by spinning blades. After all, just like helicopters, they need spinning blades to lift off and move around ...

AVIC's AR-36 VTOL UAV is designed for shipborne launch and is capable of conducting intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and communications relay operations. A 1:1 scale model of the UAV was ...