Mark Moore, the NASA engineer who evangelized electric-powered aircraft and on-demand mobility within the agency, is joining ride-hailing giant Uber to advance its Elevate concept for vertical-takeoff ...

Flying rovers may someday explore Saturn’s moon, Titan, thanks to futuristic aerial vehicle designs submitted by top minority university students for a nationwide NASA design contest. NASA Ames ...

Forget about quadcopters, NASA has just one-upped the fledgling drone enthusiast community big time. NASA’s Greased Lightning is a ten engine electric plane with vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) ...

Engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., are studying the concept of vertical takeoff and landing electric engine drones with models such as the unmanned aerial system GL-10 ...

NASA has taken a key first step in demonstrating a vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) concept aircraft that can cruise efficiently, leading the way for designs potentially ranging from long-endurance ...

San Francisco, California, Elroy Air, the Aerospace + Logistics company developing the world’s first end-to-end automated vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo systems, is teaming with ...

Two bladed rotors mounted on the wingtip provide thrust in takeoff and landing, but scissor closed in flight to become part of the wing. Custom Joby electric motors directly drive both wingtip blades, ...

A startup operating mostly in stealth mode for the past 6 years has been developing a very interesting battery-powered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, which could potentially be ...