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IEEE

Practical Distributed Control for Cooperative VTOL UAVs Within a 3-D Roundabout

Abstract: With the rapid development of uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) technology in recent years, research on large-scale low-altitude UAV air traffic management (ATM) has gained attention. Unlike the ...
Aviation Week Network

GoAero Reveals Round 2 Winners In Emergency-Response eVTOL Competition

The $2 million-plus GoAero Prize to create vertical-takeoff-and-landing emergency response aircraft has awarded $320,000 to ...
IEEE

Novel Unified Control Strategy for a Compound VTOL Vehicle

Abstract: The highly nonlinear dynamics, overactuation, and model uncertainties pose significant challenges to the flight control of vertical take-off and landing vehicle. This paper designs a unified ...
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Real Life Transformer - the Navy's Folding VTOL Jet

It’s the 70s, and we need a solution for the problem mentioned before. So if we can make an aircraft land and take off from like a VERY small flat surface, that could make any ship an aircraft carrier ...
Flying

Horizon Aircraft to Certify VTOL for Operations in Icing Conditions

Horizon Aircraft's Cavorite X7 hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft aims for certification for IFR operation and "flight into known icing conditions (FIKI)," a key differentiator from most competitors. This ...
New Atlas

First flight for Joby's ultra-long-range eVTOL

Joby Aviation's latest iteration of its autonomous all-electric S4 air taxi VTOL aircraft has made its maiden flight. The new variant aimed at the defense market boasts a turbine-electric hybrid ...
Flying

Beta Technologies’ Electric Aircraft Are Preparing to Fly Autonomously

Beta Technologies has integrated an in-house autonomy system into its electric Alia aircraft, having completed over 1,000 uncrewed flight hours with subscale models. This autonomy is projected to ...
Airport Technology

Joby Aviation completes first flight of hybrid turbine eVTOL demonstrator

Joby’s turbine-electric, autonomous VTOL aircraft completed its maiden flight in Marina. Credit: Joby Aviation. Joby Aviation has completed the inaugural flight of its turbine electric, autonomous ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

US, UAE tech firms launch joint venture to build Omen VTOL drones for military, civilian use

US, UAE tech firms launch joint venture to build Omen VTOL drones for military, civilian use ...
Interesting Engineering

Autonomous electric VTOL aircraft for US military makes successful first flight

Joby’s turbine electric, autonomous VTOL aircraft takes its first flight in Marina, CA just three months after Joby announced the aircraft concept alongside a new partnership with L3Harris ...
Seeking Alpha

Joby Aviation, L3Harris Technologies complete test flight of hybrid VTOL aircraft

Joby Aviation (JOBY) -- in partnership with defense contractor L3Harris Technologies (LHX) -- has completed a test fight of a hybrid autonomous VTOL defense aircraft using Joby’s SuperPilot autonomy ...