Today sees the opening of the Paris Air Show, the biennial trade fair and air show where the world’s aviation companies gather to display their latest innovations. Known as AtlasTETHER, this connects ...

Australia's AMSL Aero has celebrated the first tethered test flight of its ultra-efficient Vertiia eVTOL aircraft. With its unique box wing formation, eight tilting propellers and five seats, it ...

Phase 1 included tethered flights, ground taxi testing and high-powered ground runs, all with a pilot on board. Vertical is now preparing to progress to piloted untethered thrustborne testing, as soon ...

Vertical Aerospace‘s latest VX4 prototype has finished the first phase of its piloted flight-test programme, including a series of 20 tethered sorties. Conducted at the company’s flight-test centre at ...

Sikorsky's CYPHER II unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) achieved its first tethered flight last month, the Stratford, Conn.-based company announced July 5. Sikorsky said the June 15 flight was the first ...

It's been a good year so far for eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) manufacturers around the world, who are closer than ever to fully certifying their aircraft and entering commercial ...

Air-mobility startup FlyNow Aviation has removed the tethers from its stacked dual-rotor electric helicopter pod thing, and recorded the eCopter's first free flight at a test facility in Eastern ...