Virginia-based aircraft developer Electra has demonstrated the capabilities of its hybrid-electric short take-off and landing aircraft (eSTOL) with a video of an “ultra short” take-off performed with ...

Electra is building an aircraft that can take off and land using an airfield that's one-tenth the size of a standard runway. To demonstrate "blown lift" aero and hybrid-electric propulsion ...

Italian airframer Tecnam has secured European certification for the short take-off and landing variant of its P2012 Traveller twin-engined commuter aircraft. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency ...

Electra first showed off its zero emission eSTOL (electric Short Take Off and Landing) aircraft concept back in 2021. After a proof-of-concept prototype that exceeded nearly every initial promise, the ...

Welcome back to The Daily Aviation for a feature on the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II, the Short Take Off and Vertical Landing 5th Gen attack aircraft operated by the US Marines, United Kingdom ...

POCOLA, Okla. -- The skies will be filled with the roar of powerful engines over Pocola when competitors in the largest Short Take-off and Landing competition in the world arrive at Patriot Airpark.

Until vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) machines, with their innovative ways of flying, get here, there are two main kinds of aircraft in operation today: fixed-wing planes that speed horizontally ...

Credit: Alan Dron/ATW Embraer is launching a new automated take-off system that will enable its E-Jets to make better use of short runways and would improve payload-range performance. The Embraer ...

Airframe BF-01 performed the F-35’s first vertical landing on Mar. 18, 2010, and the first vertical takeoff on May 10, 2013, at NAS Patuxent River. The first F-35B Lightning II STOVL (Short Take-Off ...