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 ...

Commercial version of REACH, the VTOL, will be designed for 300 km on a single charge using hydrogen-electric propulsion and carry a payload of 100 kg. The aircraft is set to transform regional ...

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 proposed Sirius Jet marks a major aviation world first. A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft pitched at the business community, the Sirius Business Jet features a pioneering ...

The Founders and Leaders of BluJ Aero, Maruthi Amardeep Sri Vatsavaya and Uttam Kumar Dharamapuri at aircraft in a live flight demonstration prototype cargo VTOL (Vertical Take-off and Landing ...

Later turbine-powered versions of Pterodynamics' Transwing VTOL aircraft could have a payload of up to 620 pounds of range of around 1,000 nm. © Kristian Bogner ...

Metro Aviation, which operates air ambulance services across the U.S. using a fleet of more than 150 modified helicopters, plans to add electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft to its ...

[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 ...

Carmakers are both going it alone and partnering with existing aircraft manufacturers and startups ... cheaper than today’s chopper rides. Some VTOL makers plan commercialization within a ...

Azul, Brazil's third-largest airline announced on Monday a one billion dollars accord with German manufacturer Lilium for the purchase of 220 of VTOL electric aircraft scheduled to begin operating ...