The dream of personal flight—zipping above city streets, bypassing traffic, and gliding freely through the air—is inching ...

In the race for vertical takeoff jets, the Bell D-188A stood out as one of the most ambitious concepts of the Cold War. Designed with eight jet engines ... by 1961. The project remains a ...

UK-based Vertical Aerospace has announced it is developing a 1,000-mile (1,600km) hybrid eVTOL variant of its VX4 aircraft to ...

This top secret vehicle from Canadian Avro was part hovercraft and part jet-powered vertical takeoff vehicle ... Although the project survived in one way or another from the early 1950s, by ...

Millionaires in the future could ride these jets that take off and land vertically without the need for a runway. Trifan 600 is a jet designed by XTI Aircraft. Follow TI: On Facebook More from ...

In 1972, he began marketing his design: an eight-place vertical/short-takeoff-and-landing jet with vectored thrust ... expert having concluded that this project is just fraught with problems ...

Now, the startup says it has completed its first testing phase, and shown that the same prototype jet can transition from vertical take-off into forward flight, and hit speeds of 100km (62 miles ...

The programme aims to develop prototype aircraft capable of both vertical take-off and landing and of cruising at speeds typical of fixed-wing jet-powered aircraft. Aurora says its recent ...

With electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL ... making it the second customer planning to deploy Archer’s Midnight jet under the “Launch Edition” program. Looking ahead, the company ...

A fully electric, single-rider hoverbike, the Airbike is built for vertical takeoff and agile ... the Airbike uses compact jet propulsion—possibly ducted fans or turbines—to achieve vertical ...