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 ...

DARPA has announced the four companies that will compete for the contract to design, build and test an X-Plane demonstrator capable of high-speed cruise, hover and VTOL for its Speed and Runway ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a result, we also know that another rendering that DAPRA previously released in relation to the SPRINT effort, seen below, was an earlier version of Aurora's concept. "Aurora is designing a high ...

The Vertiia is one of today's most impressive VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft. It's a trailblazer for Australia's AAM (Advanced Air Mobility) and a global industry innovator, claiming to ...

An artist's illustration of Bell's basic High Speed Vertical Landing and Takeoff configuration which the company has posited could fly as a family of different sized vehicles. DARPA has selected four ...

This experiment explores what happens when artificial intelligence is used to generate entirely new aircraft concepts. By combining text based prompts and image generation, a series of futuristic ...

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 ...

The Convair XF-Y Pogo was the world’s first true VTOL fighter aircraft to successfully take off vertically, transition to ...