To avoid relying on full-size aircraft carriers, Grumman proposed a VTOL aircraft that could operate from helicopter-sized platforms on smaller ships. The G-674 concept rotated the rear fuselage and ...
Toulouse-based hybrid-electric start-up Ascendance Flight Technologies has begun final assembly of its Atea vertical take-off ...
DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. The DARPA ...
The Black Arrows were already legends for their impossible-tight formation flying—but their era also produced one of Britain’s boldest experiments: the Short SC-1, the world’s first practical VTOL ...
DARPA’s X-76 experimental aircraft aims to combine helicopter flexibility with jet-like speeds and runway-independent flight.