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 ...

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 ...

Integrating hybrid-electric propulsion capabilities into Vertical’s next-generation aircraft prototype, unlocking multi-billion-dollar opportunities including defence, logistics and wider commercial ...

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 ...

Flight is entering a new era, one where it is cleaner, faster, and radically more accessible. BluJ Aerospace Private Limited, ...

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 ...

Odys Aviation is a startup that makes hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft targeting regional air mobility, including city-to-city travel. Because it is a hybrid system, the ...

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, is producing a Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator (HEX), a fully-autonomous hybrid-electric vertical-take-off-and-landing (eVTOL) prototype. With a maximum gross weight ...

Ascendance Flight Technologies has raised €21 million ($22.7 million) in its latest funding round, which the French start-up will use to accelerate development of its proposed Atea hybrid-electric ...