I'm giving my VTOL jet a spin after someone asked to see another vertical takeoff and landing plane in action. My V22 can be ...

All 67 people on board the plane and the helicopter were killed. An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ...

Horizon Aircraft's Cavorite X7 hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft aims for certification for IFR operation and "flight into known icing conditions (FIKI)," a key differentiator from most competitors. This ...

Joby Aviation (JOBY) -- in partnership with defense contractor L3Harris Technologies (LHX) -- has completed a test fight of a hybrid autonomous VTOL defense aircraft using Joby’s SuperPilot autonomy ...

Three crew members and 11 people on the ground were killed when the MD-11 cargo plane crashed after takeoff in Louisville, Ky., on Nov. 4. By Francesca Regalado and Michael Levenson A UPS cargo plane ...

The Janus-1 is a twin-rotor personal helicopter with the nickname of the flying suitcase. Developed by the Chinese company, X-Control, the nickname refers to the aircraft's diminutive size, and while ...

S.E. Jenkins is a digital content producer for CBS Texas. She has also been a Digital Content Producer in Tallahassee and Myrtle Beach. S.E. graduated with journalism degrees from Texas State ...

The advances of Aurora’s demonstrator ensure that the company’s fan-in-wing VTOL experiments will extend well beyond DARPA’s SPRINT. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, is poised to redefine ...

When President Trump signed an executive order accelerating U.S. drone production and advanced air systems, many people focused their attention on defense. But embedded within that policy was ...

Flight testing expected to start in fall 2025, with operational demonstrations expected in 2026 New aircraft class could be used for a wide range of low-altitude support use-cases Gas turbine hybrid ...

Not every plane has the luxury of very long airport-worthy runway strips. In fact, many combat scenarios are in non-ideal locations that often do not come with a nice long runway for landing and ...