76 Results From "VTOL"

Two flying cars collided with each other during an airshow rehearsal in Changchun, a city in northeastern China.
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Dark Smoke Billows After Horrific Collision Between Flying Cars

Poland-based startup Volonaut has released a flashy new video of its Airbike, a terrifying-looking, jet-powered hoverbike.
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This Real-Life Speeder Bike Looks Like a Terrifyingly Fun Death Trap

The FAA has deemed the Samson Sky Switchblade — a street-legal, three-wheeled VTOL described as a "flying sports car" — airworthy enough for trial flights.
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FAA Greenlights Adorable Flying Car for Test Flights

Flying car startup Airspeeder has completed what it's referring to as the "world's first electric flying car race" in the South Australian desert.
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Pilots Go Head to Head in “World’s First Electric Flying Car Race”

Debuting last week at the Detroit Auto Show, XTURISMO can reach a top speed of over 60 miles per hour. It might be the real deal.
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Startup Shows Off Flying Motorcycle That Can Cruise for 40 Minutes

The first Olympic route would ferry passengers between the  Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Le Bourget airports, and a second would link two Parisian suburbs. About 30 manufacturers answered the call to test out various parts of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs.
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Paris Will Use Electric Flying Cars to Get Passengers to the Olympics

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk admitted that he is "so dying to do a supersonic, electric VTOL jet" in a recent tweet responding to entrepreneur Peter Diamandis.
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Elon Musk Says He’s “Dying” to Develop a Supersonic Electric Jet

NASA is officially starting to flight test an all-electric vertical take off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft built by California-based Joby Aviation.
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NASA Begins Flight Testing an Electric Flying Taxi

Swedish eVTOL startup Jetson is hoping to bring a $92,000 personal flying vehicle dubbed the Jetson ONE to market, a drone you can literally sit inside of.
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This Personal Hover Bike Looks Pretty Awesome

David Mayman, CEO of JetPack Aviation, believes that anyone can fly a jetpack — but is it really that easy? I flew one to test it out.
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They Let Me Fly an Experimental Jetpack and… Well, I Survived

A team of scientists tested extremely fast-charging batteries that could make eVTOLs finally become economically viable modes of transport.
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New Battery Tech Could Finally Make Flying Taxis Economically Feasible

The world's first flying race car has taken to the skies for the very first time, setting the stage for an entirely new kind of racing league.
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Watch the World’s First Flying Race Car Take Flight for the First Time

Alauda Racing, an Australian eVTOL startup, has revealed the Airspeeder Mk3, what it's calling the "world's first electric flying racing car ready to race."
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Startup Unveils World’s First Flying Racecar

The Japanese Company SkyDrive Inc just conducted a successful test of its eVTOL flying car vehicle with a human pilot on board.
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Japanese Company Tests a Flying Car — With a Human On Board

General Motors has shown off two truly wild-looking autonomous vehicle and flying car concepts under the Cadillac brand at this year's CES.
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This Is Cadillac’s Wild Flying Car Concept

Famed Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper just made major investments in jetpack suit companies JetPack Aviation and Gravity Industrie
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A Tesla Investor Is Pouring Money Into Jetpack Technology

Japan is pouring money into the development of flying cars with aims of commercializing the futuristic mode of transportation as soon as 2023.
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Flying Cars Are Actually, Finally Becoming a Reality in Japan

Israel startup Urban Aeronautics announced this week that it's partnering with hydrogen fuel cell maker HyPoint to devise a hydrogen-powered flying car.
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This Flying Car Looks Like the DeLorean From “Back to the Future”

The Air Force just showed off a prototype of a flying car — and it looks, well, like something out of an early 2000s Pixar animation movie.
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The Air Force’s Flying Car Looks… Incredibly Goofy

Flying car startup Kitty Hawk has revealed Heaviside, an electric aircraft that's "roughly 100 times quieter than a regular helicopter."
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Kitty Hawk’s Extremely Quiet Flying Car Has a 100-Mile Range