The Future Vertical Lift initiative is a bright spot in major defense platform acquisition. The story of how the FVL vision has come to fruition still holds important lessons even today. The U.S.

Vertical lift manufacturer Bell has delivered a test article to the US Air Force (USAF) that aims to demonstrate the company’s novel concept for a jet-powered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) ...

Aurora Flight Sciences on Oct. 8 unveiled new details of a notional operational variant of the fan-in-wing concept it is proposing for a high-speed, vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) X-Plane. The ...

Runways are undesirable locations for military aircraft. Being tied to miles of concrete gives jet aircraft a built-in vulnerability as well as restricting their flexibility. At sea, it is extremely ...

American military research agency DARPA has always been at the forefront of technological advancements, and one of its most recent projects, the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies X-plane ...

KAL-ASD's FVL model concept demonstrated vertical take-off and landing and cruise-mode configuration during ADEX 2023. (Janes/Akhil Kadidal) The US Army's selection of the Bell V-280 ‘Valor' tiltrotor ...

An artist's illustration of Bell's basic High Speed Vertical Landing and Takeoff configuration which the company has posited could fly as a family of different sized vehicles. DARPA has selected four ...

Honda Aircraft's research arm, HRI, has received FAA approval to fly a subscale test model of its hybrid-electric VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft at its new dedicated R&D facility in San ...

The Future Vertical Lift initiative is a bright spot in major defense platform acquisition. The story of how the FVL vision has come to fruition still holds important lessons even today. The U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GettyImages 1394398903 Photo by Jonathan Green Rolls Royce PLC Getty Images 2 Runways are undesirable locations for military ...