Personal electric aircraft have teased us for years. They look futuristic, promise freedom from traffic, and usually come with prices that put them out of reach or timelines that feel uncertain.

Joby Aviation on Thursday announced the first flight of its new turbine-electric, autonomous vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, marking a major step toward hybrid VTOL operations for commercial ...

The Cavorite X7 aims to reach where no other eVTOL has, and only a few helicopters can. It's not a geographical destination, but the combined ability to fly in the clouds (literally) and in icing ...

The Army has detailed an extensive plan for evaluating hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) platforms and enabling technologies, with an aim to hold capability demonstrations between ...

Pipistrel has successfully completed the first hover flight of its Nuuva V300 hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff and landing (VTOL) prototype. The flight of the uncrewed cargo VTOL was conducted at ...

Sikorsky plans to have the power systems tested for its hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (HEX VTOL) demonstrator aircraft ready by year’s end to begin ground runs in 2025, citing it as a ...

DARPA has completed flight-testing of a sub-scale version of a novel aircraft design as part of its Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) X-Plane program, and is proceeding with work to develop a ...

The Agility Prime program aims to test and develop electric VTOL vehicles to ‘enable resilient distributed logistics and sustained mobility.’ Archer Aviation Inc. announced on Aug. 15, 2024,the ...

No runway required: Joby Aviation successfully flew 523 miles in a first-of-its-kind hydrogen-electric air taxi demonstrator, with water as the only by-product. Joby’s hydrogen-electric, vertical take ...