A French startup called Ascendance is working on a five-people hybrid vertical take-off and landing aircraft called ATEA.

The X-13 was developed in the 1950s, at a time when aerospace research was perhaps at its most fervent. The Ryan X-13 ...

The aircraft is meant to develop and mature rotor blown wing design, which can now be applied to larger aircraft for unmanned ...

Ascendance's Atea hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft has two propellers for cruise flight and eight ducted fans for vertical lift.

It was also the first VTOL aircraft to use a jet thrust diverter system for vertical lift. Although the conventional helicopter layout had been fully realized by the 1940s, the next evolution in ...

The firm adds that the rotor blown wing design is one of a future family of systems it is developing, all of which would include winged VTOL UAS and single main rotor aircraft, governed by ...

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The jet's flying range was an impressive 2,300 ... and lessons from the X-13 would be used in designing later VTOL aircraft like the AV-8 Harrier. Casual aviation enthusiasts might do a double ...

Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal is investing $20 million in LAT Aerospace, an aerospace startup focused on developing low-cost ...