Mar. 27—PLATTSBURGH — The Department of Defense's Agility Prime Program, which just secured an additional $20 million from the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, has been instrumental for BETA ...

Several top US Air Force (USAF) leaders watched a demonstration flight of an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft on 20 August at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas. The event was the ...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The AFWERX Agility Prime program took another step forward in December with the first government remotely piloted flight of an electric Vertical Takeoff ...

The U.S. Air Force wants to experiment with using eVTOLs in its Agile Combat Employment concept of operations. Credit: Joby Aviation Hoping to show how electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft ...

The AFWERX Agility Prime program has been investing in electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft with the hope of bringing advancements to the industry and providing possible new forms of ...

The Air Force’s “Agility Prime” program to create a market for electric flying cars will see its first major tests in early 2021, the department’s research lab announced. The planned tests come after ...

The U.S. Air Force awarded a contract to study a radar sensing solution, the SPEKTRA radar, used by the automotive industry to see if it can be modified for electric vertical take-off and landing ...

The U.S. Air Force and its Agility Prime team have signed a contract with Electra to further advance the company’s development of hybrid-electric propulsion systems for electric ultrashort takeoff and ...

EAST AURORA, NY, Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B) announced today that its Aircraft Controls segment has agreed to an OTP (Other Transaction for Prototype) agreement with AFWERX, the United States ...

The Air Force is on the hunt for a Jetsons-style flying car, and service officials just got an eyeful of one of their very first prototypes By Jared Keller Published Aug 24, 2020 5:16 PM EDT The Air ...

An FAA Bombardier Challenger with NAVAID/ILS calibration equipment makes a test-calibration approach to a runway. Earlier this week, one of the more under-the-radar eVTOL startups cracked the side ...

The US Air Force’s (USAF’s) Agility Prime programme has signed a contract with start-up Electra Aero to build and flight demonstrate a prototype hybrid-electric short take-off and landing (eSTOL) ...