The concept of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft has been circulating for decades, but only these past few years have they become a much-needed transportation tool that could play a major ...

The aircraft is capable of routine takeoff and landing in 30 knot (15 m/s) winds as well as conducting operations in extreme temperatures ranging from -20°C to +50°C (-4°F to 122 °F). The Penguin B ...

Various startups continue to try to reinvent aviation with personal aircraft that look like consumer drones scaled up enough to fit a human. Now, newcomer Jetson Aero throws its hat into the ring with ...

BAE Systems has unveiled a fascinating new autonomous, hybrid, VTOL UAV for military use. The STRIX, developed in Australia, folds to fit inside a shipping container, and is capable of carrying 160 kg ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mundus Group (Pink Sheets:MNDP) is impressed by the conceptual use and forward thinking of Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft technologies in ...

The U.S. Marine Corps is looking for a new autonomous, vertical-takeoff-and- landing (VTOL) system to supply austere ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed its latest concept for a low-drag, fan-in-blended-wing body design for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program aimed at producing a ...

The advances of Aurora’s demonstrator ensure that the company’s fan-in-wing VTOL experiments will extend well beyond DARPA’s SPRINT.

One of DARPA’s latest projects is set to reshape the future of aviation for the US Armed forces - the SPRINT X-Plane program. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is searching for a ...

With political and military tensions between China and the United States escalating rapidly, the US Navy and Marines are ...

At a “shark tank”-style aerospace pitch competition during Revolution.Aero last week, Aviation Safety Resources (ASR) won both the audience and judges’ vote for their patent-pending parachute system ...