Ascendance, the Toulouse-based company that has developed the Atea hybrid-electric VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing), continues strengthening its presence in Southeast Asia and helps boost ...

The Nord 500 Cadet was a futuristic French VTOL aircraft from the 1960s that promised to revolutionize air mobility. Using independently tilting ducted fans for lift and flight, it could reach speeds ...

Europe wants to have fully operational regional aircraft with hybrid-electric propulsion by 2035. A significant grant was recently awarded via the Clean Aviation program to a consortium led by ...

Survey Copter, a French uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) developed and owned by Airbus, has unveiled a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) version of its Aliaca tactical platform. The standard Aliaca is ...

Some technologies, like smartphones, have a transformative impact on entire sectors of the economy and our everyday lives. Advances in autonomous unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, are driving ...

The French navy will field its first vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) example of the Aliaca uncrewed aerial system (UAS) later this year, under an amended contract with Airbus Helicopters.

Whisper Aero says its JetFoil enables conventional, short, or vertical takeoff and landing in the same form factor.

What could be cooler than a jet-powered equivalent of a quadcopter drone? Well, how about a larger passenger-carrying version? That's exactly what aviation firm FusionFlight has just revealed, in the ...