In May 1969, a daring race between iconic skyscrapers marked a new chapter in aviation. At the heart of it was Britain’s ...

The Bell X-22 was a groundbreaking V/STOL aircraft with unmatched control and agility. Its tilt-fan design and built-in ...

Experimental craft ranged from Ling-Temco-Vought’s V/STOL XC-142 to Martin Marietta’s Lifting Body, in which astronauts may some day glide back from orbit. In military aviation, the star of ...

Autonomous air taxi developer Wisk Aero is wind-tunnel testing a subscale model of its pilotless aircraft at Boeing’s V/STOL Wind Tunnel (BVWT) facility in Philadelphia. The aerodynamics testing ...

China’s Shenyang Partners With Manta On Hybrid-Electric V/STOL is published in Advanced Air Mobility Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with ...

Currently, Narsipur said, electrical V/STOL is not very efficient for an aircraft as it eats into a large portion of the available power, leading to lower aircraft range and endurance. Practical ...

This system is traditionally reserved for aircraft carriers, enabling the rapid deployment of fighter jets and helicopters with Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing (V/STOL) capabilities ...

Neatly lettered in yellow across a new airstrip that opened last week at New York’s La Guardia Airport gleams the word STOL, an acronym for short takeoff and landing. La Guardia’s STOLPORT, as ...

The McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II is a successful V/STOL military warplane used by the US Marine Corps. The Harrier II played a significant role in Operation Desert Storm and is still used by ...