VTOL

Lilium Gets $90M Funding for Electric VTOL Project

Flying car startup Lilium unveiled their working all-electric VTOL prototype back in April, showing that their design is functional. Even…

7 years ago

NASA Engineer Hired to Direct Uber Elevate VTOL Project

We reported four months ago of Uber’s plans to develop Uber Elevate, a fleet of Vertical Take-Off and Landing or…

8 years ago

Uber Teams Up with Star Wars for Rogue One Campaign

To promote the new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story film, Disney has teamed up with Uber for a campaign…

8 years ago

Flying Cars are Coming to Europe

A European venture firm has made a significant investment in a German aviation firm to bring flying cars to the…

8 years ago

Uber Developing Automated VTOL Flying Taxis

Private transportation outfit Uber may already be working on ditching its drivers in favour of self-driving cars, but the company…

8 years ago

Fly or Shoot with Parrot’s Swing and Mambo Drones

Drones have come a long way since they first come out. Originally used to fly over dangerous countries and areas,…

8 years ago

Welcome To The Lilium – Your Personal Electric Plane

Look back at any picture of the future from twenty years ago and they all have one thing in common,…

9 years ago

TF-X Flying Car to Hit Roads (and Skies) by 2018

Terrafugia, a US-based small aircraft manufacturer, is building its first flying car, and has revealed that it hopes to begin…

9 years ago

Elon Musk “Tempted” to Build Electric VTOL Jet

Not content with his fleet of Tesla electric cars, his astronautics startup SpaceX, and his attempts to revolutionise public transport…

9 years ago

FLARES – A New Drone Launch and Retrieval System

Just like a full-sized aeroplane, landing a fixed wing drone is no easy feat, made even more difficult under poor…

9 years ago

NASA Launches 10-Engine Electric Plane

NASA is testing a 10-engined prototype battery-powered VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) aeroplane. The 10-foot wingspan GL-10 plane, codenamed…

10 years ago

1990s Flying Car Prototype Up For Auction

Back in the late-eighties, ambitious aeronautics company Sky Innovations pumped $6 million into the production a flying car. The result…

10 years ago