In 1956 in the United States, the Goodyear company developed one of the most unusual aviation concepts ever tested: an inflatable airplane. Using a specially engineered material called Airmat, the ...

Magpie Aviation announced a novel new approach to electric airplanes on Monday. Today’s battery technology (including CATL’s new, more efficient one) severely limits the practicality of zero-emission ...

A new kind of airplane is taking shape in Southern California. Its design looks nothing like today’s commercial jets—and it could change everything from passenger comfort to military power. Aircraft ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aircraft service provider Ameco created the "Fly-Buddy Hub," an economy concept with lie-flat beds. The six-seater design is ...

Planned to fly in 2028, the X-76 will explore technologies for fast-flying runway-independent aircraft with folding rotors, crewed and uncrewed.

Last year, the reputable manufacturer of both commercial and military aircraft, Embraer, was announcing a pioneering series of aircraft concepts that would use only clean-energy and sustainable ...

DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. The DARPA ...

VTOL capability comes from the vehicle’s unique tandem-wing, “tilt-aircraft” architecture. Other eVTOL models feature ...