America's technological leadership is now viewed as an urgent matter of national security, and to make sure the country keeps its edge, the US Military is mustering its impressive resources to ...

The U.S. Air Force is one step closer to officially integrating eVTOLs in its activities. The first operational exercise in the Agility Prime project demonstrated that an electric aircraft can be ...

Flight tests of US electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft are about to enter the next stage. The USAF has granted airworthiness approval to the Heaviside electric vertical take-off and ...

Like any complex topic, electromagnetic theory has its own vocabulary. When speaking about dielectrics we may refer to their permittivity, and discussions on magnetic circuits might find terms like ...

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Kitty Hawk performed static load training with its Heaviside tilt propeller electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in an Agility Prime operational exercise for US Air Force (USAF) ...

Kitty Hawk’s Flyer, the company’s first flying car project, is no more. The company has announced that it’s shutting down the initiative in a blog post, where it has also revealed that it’ll focus on ...

To quote a now-ancient Avery Brooks TV spot "I was promised flying cars! I don't see any flying cars! Why? Why? Why?!?" Some bad news first: the future slickly painted in an Uber Elevate YouTube ad a ...

Kitty Hawk, Larry Page’s air taxi outfit, on Thursday showed off its latest concept—an eight-motor prototype that uses an unconventional forward-swept wing, and is purportedly 100 times quieter than a ...