On this day in aviation history, 59 years ago (February 10, 1967), the first flight of the Dornier Do 31 took place. The Do 31 was an experimental VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) cargo jet that ...

In the world of technology, it's not uncommon for an idea to seem entirely plausible on paper, only for the reality not to pan out. The key, in these sorts of scenarios, is to come to that realization ...

Lockheed’s CL-346 was a 1950s fighter concept designed to take off vertically, fly at Mach 2.2, intercept bombers, and ...

The X-13 was developed in the 1950s, at a time when aerospace research was perhaps at its most fervent. The Ryan X-13 Vertijet was an experimental aircraft built to test vertical takeoffs and landings ...

Sikorsky has revealed the Unmanned Rotor Blown Wing concept it is designing with Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works under Phase 1 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s ...

Some technologies, like smartphones, have a transformative impact on entire sectors of the economy and our everyday lives. Advances in autonomous unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, are driving ...

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 ...

Defence contractor L3Harris and electric aircraft developer Joby are teaming up to develop a new class of military-focused hybrid-electric rotorcraft. The pair announced the partnership on 1 August, ...

Electric VTOL aircraft promise fast, quiet, clean, and most compellingly, very affordable new ways to hop across traffic or town to town. If they deliver on their promises, eVTOLs represent the ...

The XFY-1 was very much experimental. No other propeller-driven aircraft with similar size, weight, and engine power had ever attempted to take off and land vertically. The Pogo required safety lines ...