Grumman’s G-674 Nutcracker was a bizarre Cold War concept for a VTOL aircraft that could operate from small warships by ...

Sikorsky has already shown it can make a damn good chopper. Now it’s ready to prove it can make a fleet of futuristic hybrid rotorcraft, too. The American aircraft manufacturer, helmed by aviation ...

Australian zero-emission aircraft designer and manufacturer AMSL Aero has today signed an order and received deposits for 10 of its Vertiia vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, with an ...

DARPA has selected six companies to take concepts for a shipborne vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft through a preliminary design review (PDR) on the way to flying a planned X-plane ...

Czech company Zuri is advancing on the path to full certification of its flagship five-seat hybrid-electric VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing). A second-generation demonstrator aircraft, the TD 2.0, ...

DARPA’s AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY program, known as ANCILLARY, shows six design concepts for a low-weight, large-payload, long-endurance VTOL uncrewed X-plane. The ...

The Cavorite X7’s Low Projected Operating Cost Has Been Verified by a Leading Independent Audit Firm TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / March 5, 2026 / New Horizon Aircraft Ltd. (“Horizon Aircraft” or ...

London startup Lyte Aviation is thinking big when it comes to VTOL aircraft. Forget your piddly five-seaters, Lyte says its first aircraft will be a 44-seat monster with a 300-km/h (186-mph) top speed ...

Doors covering the embedded lift fans are open in the vertical flight phase. Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a refined concept for a fan-in-wing high-speed ...

Vertical lift manufacturer Bell has delivered a test article to the US Air Force (USAF) that aims to demonstrate the company’s novel concept for a jet-powered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) ...

The Bell X-22 was a ducted fan VTOL aircraft created to explore a new path between helicopters and conventional airplanes. With four tilting ducted fans, stable hover performance, and promising ...