VTOL jet transports promised a future of vertical take off and landing for fast, flexible air travel. From bold Cold War ...

[Tom] used the process demonstrated in the video after the break to create the wing for his latest VTOL RC aircraft. It was printed with lightweight PLA, which can ooze badly when it stops extruding.

Bell will design and build a high-speed VTOL demonstrator for DARPA’s SPRINT program, as Aurora exits the competition.

DARPA named Bell Textron to proceed with the next phase of its SPRINT X-Plane project, to design and build an aircraft that ...

Check out this fun radio controlled toy, the Snelflight VTOL Jump Jet RC Aircraft. Jump Jet is a genuine VTOL fixed-wing plane especially designed for flying indoors. It can take off vertically ...

What could be cooler than a jet-powered equivalent of a quadcopter drone? Well, how about a larger passenger-carrying version ...

A few guys from Jobi Robotics came up with a really interesting RC plane called the Quadshot. With 4 motors, the plane is very similar to the quadcopter builds we’ve seen, but an added wing a… ...

The San Bernardino County Fire Department hosted a demonstration this week to check out a cutting edge, electrically powered, ...

Jetoptera claims that, when compared to a small turbojet, this concept can lower fuel consumption by 50%, and fuel-efficient aircraft are certainly a hot topic right now.

Summary and Key Points: The Ryan X-13 Vertijet was a pioneering aircraft developed in the 1950s that could take off and land vertically without a runway, making it a precursor to modern VTOL ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has sped up the start of flight-testing by more than a year of vertical ...

American aviation startup Electra just announced it signed another contract for 2,000 short take-off and landing aircraft.