XTI Aerospace secured $55 million in funding to develop its TriFan 600 VTOL aircraft, resulting in a post-money valuation of approximately $275 million. The TriFan 600 is a unique fixed-wing VTOL ...

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Despite past successes with military VTOL jets, creating a civilian VTOL jet has proven elusive, as exemplified by the duPont Aerospace DP-1 project. The DP-1, a smaller-scale model of the ambitious ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed its latest concept for a low-drag, fan-in-blended-wing body design for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program aimed at producing a ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. When President Trump signed an executive order accelerating U.S. drone production and ...

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Some companies are working to overcome major obstacles, including strict regulations, to bring consumers flying cars that ...

VTOL drones may be versatile, but the weight and aerodynamic drag of their extra hardware results in a shorter range than that of their fixed-wing-only counterparts. That's where the FLARES system ...

Pegasus two-seat gyroplane is a rebirth of the type-certified Avian 2/180 gyroplane. Credit: ARC Aerosystems UK startup ARC Aerosystems has secured the first sale of its Pegasus two-seat autogyro, the ...

Key Points - The Convair Model 200 was a supersonic, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter jet proposed for the US Navy in the 1970s. -It was designed to operate from a new class of small "Sea ...

Whether a VTOL drone can be used as a civilian or a military one it's up to other people, but those who made the Atlis designed it to lift and carry hundreds of pounds attached to it and fly a few ...