A Lockheed Martin F-35B performs a controlled vertical hover during the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) 2025 at RAF Fairford. Using its unique STOVL system, the jet activates its lift fan and ...

US rotorcraft developer Piasecki Aircraft has completed the first flight of a new unmanned tiltfan prototype intended for military use. The Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) is a vertical ...

Air taxi developer Archer Aviation’s Midnight electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft transitioned from hover to forward flight and back again for the first time last week. Midnight is ...

I filmed this V22 Osprey as it approaches from a distance and then slows to a hover almost directly above me. You can clearly see the tiltrotor nacelles rotate from forward flight into vertical ...

A US aerospace and defense technology company has successfully tested its new Genesys GRC ...

Hot on the heels of Lilium's Phoenix 2 demonstrator, Israel's Air has released video footage of its two-seat personal eVTOL prototype transitioning to cruise flight, marking the start of the company's ...

The Aero2, a tilt-wing drone developed by Dufour Aerospace (Zurich, Switzerland), has completed its first successful hover flight. The aircraft platform version — called the “X2.3” — is one of many ...

After recently retiring the Aero2 prototype, Swiss aviation company Dufour Aerospace has focused exclusively on the production-ready version known as Aero2 X2.3. Completing the first hover flight is ...