With massive 25-foot-long propellers and a revolutionary design, it paved the way for modern VTOL aircraft. But during testing, strange issues threatened its success. Could this futuristic design ...

Some simple requirements for flight are wings and a long enough runway to generate lift, though experiments with Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL ... entirely since the aircraft could take ...

A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft pitched at the business community ... Sirius is hoping to leapfrog all this, not least because of the futuristic form of the Business Jet. With a ...

To make experimentation even easier, [Stephen Carlson] and other researchers from the RoboWork Lab at the University of Nevada created the MiniHawk, a 3D printed VTOL aircraft for use a test bed ...

The Nuuva V300 is a long-range, large-capacity hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft. "We are thrilled to witness the Nuuva V300's first flight, a demonstration of ...

[Peter Ryseck]’s Mini QBIT quadrotor biplane brings in some of the efficiency of fixed-wing flight, without all the complexity usually associated with VTOL aircraft. The Mini QBIT is just a 3 ...

Hyderabad-based advanced air mobility startup BluJ Aero conducted a flight demonstration of its vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft prototype. Powered by batteries and not carrying any ...