A scale model of a futuristic "Flying V" aircraft has made a successful maiden flight in Germany. Delft University of Technology in Holland is spearheading the project, which is backed by Dutch ...

Last year we caught wind of an interesting aviation concept cooked up by engineers at TU Delft, which consisted of a novel V-shaped design that promises significant efficiency gains over conventional ...

A scaled model of a new configuration aircraft with distributed electric propulsion (DEP) successfully completed its maiden flight from Aeroporto di Taranto-Grottaglie in the south of Italy. The ...

Vertical’s most advanced full-scale prototype is key step towards certification of aircraft. 60% of this prototype’s technology is from Vertical’s strategic aerospace partners GKN Aerospace, Hanwha, ...

SoftBank Corp. (“SoftBank”) announced that it collected the data necessary for flight verification and aircraft design as part of its development of a next-generation uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) ...

Human beings have only been able to fly for about 112 years. About 50 years into that, we got pretty good at it, using tried-and-true methods of propulsion and lift to get fixed wing aircraft with jet ...