For VTOL and hover operations, the drone's top and bottom bodywork opens up in a series of slats, exposing a greater percentage of the rotors' swept area to airflow and deriving maximum lift. Then, as ...

With the rotor stopped, the blades are stowed in the sled test at Holloman. Credit: Bell Bell has completed sled tests of the stop/fold rotor concept for a high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing ...

Archer Aviation Inc. (NYSE:ACHR) is one of the most active US stocks to buy according to analysts. On December 2, Archer ...

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Archer Aviation Inc. (NYSE: ACHR) today announced an exclusive collaboration with Karem Aircraft, giving Archer access to the key aspects of Karem’s advanced, military-grade rotor and tiltrotor ...

Embraer-backed Eve Air Mobility said this week it has conducted the first flight of the vertical take-off and landing design ...

NASA’s rotorcraft research is focusing on technical challenges, which—if overcome—could open the door for regional jet-size vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft to operate quietly and ...

Arizona's Rotor X wants to step up from being the world's biggest kit helicopter manufacturer and get into the eVTOL game, and to do so, it's put forth a design it claims is "dramatically more ...

Bell's High Speed Vertical Takeoff and Landing concepts seek to answer a demand for light to heavy tactical VTOL aircraft that can operate at jet speeds across Pacific distances. The program manager ...

Transcend Air's ground bound scale model test rig consists of an in-house fabricated boom, a one-fifth Vy400 scale model and a 2006 Toyota Sequoia SUV. Transcend Air plans to launch production of its ...

Aergility Corporation announced today that it will be unveiling its full-scale ATLIS hybrid cargo VTOL UAV prototype on April 25th. As a result of years of development and testing, the innovative ...