Aircraft

Horizon’s Cavorite X7 just made aviation history by pulling off the world's first stable fan-in-wing transition flight. The hybrid eVTOL can take off like a helicopter, cruise like a plane, and recharge its batteries mid-flight for quick turnarounds.

Who needs windows when you can have superefficient transonic passenger flight? That seems to be the reasoning behind Otto Aviation's Phantom 3500 jet aircraft that dumps the portholes in favor of super-laminar flow to lose weight and burn less fuel.

More than 30 years in the making, this long-range, high-speed, flight-tested, two-seat flying car is slated to be certified later this year, with customer deliveries beginning in early 2026. The team tells us an amphibious version could follow.

The word "flying car" immediately puts visions of "The World of Tomorrow" in my head; retro-looking flashy contraptions. If you were to ask Dezső Molnár what his vision of a flying car looked like, he'd simply show you the one he's building now.

A jet-powered "speeder bike" flying through the forest on May the 4th? We speculate on the Volonaut Airbike, question the wild claims, and crunch the numbers to see if it's legit – or just really cool VFX. Spoiler alert: we want it to be real.

AltoVolo is aiming high with its foray into eVTOLs. It plans to offer a personal hybrid-electric aircraft that will deliver 510 miles of range, and hit cruise speeds up of to 220 mph – while making 80% less noise than a helicopter.

Joby Aviation achieved a major milestone on April 22, 2025 when it became the first company to fly an all-electric tilt-rotor eVTOL with a pilot aboard as it transitioned from horizontal to vertical flight and back again.

NASA and Boeing have effectively cancelled the X-66 Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) concept demonstrator aircraft. Officially described as a "pause," development of the thin-wing airplane is being halted in favor of ground-based testing.

After demonstrating a super-efficient, ultra-quiet leaf blower, Whisper Aero has secured funding to fit its WhisperDrive propulsion technology to a glider and begin test flights. Its innovative ducted fans promise extreme efficiency and low noise.

Archer has its sights set on making air taxis a thing really soon. It's just revealed plans for a network of vertiports from which its electric aircraft can take off and land in NYC – so you can beat street traffic and get around town in minutes.

At the Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo in Lakeland, Florida, Epic Aircraft has unveiled its high-performance personal and business aircraft, the E1000 AX, which can land itself at the touch of a button in an emergency. In fact, you don't even need the button.

One of the most fascinating aircraft in the eVTOL space has moved into flight testing with a new large-scale prototype. Cyclotech's Blackbird airframe becomes the world's first aircraft to fly with six barrel-shaped "Cyclorotors" for propulsion.

Tickets for autonomous flights over two tourist spots in China should go on sale shortly. China's civil aviation authority has given the green light for EHang to begin low-altitude commercial operations with its EH216-S eVTOL.

Described as a "formula one racing car for the sky," the Jetson One is an electric-powered VTOL sky toy that can hover, bank, and reach speeds of up to 63 mph. The company's latest video will leave you wanting it more than ever.

Airbus has lifted the curtain just a tad and given us a glimpse at the future of commercial aviation. At the Airbus Summit 2025 in Toulouse, the company presented a view of the technology that will create the single-aisle airliner of tomorrow.