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First FAA-certification candidate autonomous eVTOL completes historic US flight

The question is, will pilotless air travel be the norm? The future of urban air mobility has reached another milestone with Wisk Aero’s successful electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air ...

This New eVTOL Just Finished a Historic First Flight

Wisk Aero's sixth-generation autonomous eVTOL completed its maiden flight last week in California. It is a candidate for ...
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How the Soviets tried to rival the British Harrier

We examined how the Soviet Union attempted to match the Harrier with its own VTOL fighter and why the Yak-38 never lived up ...
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Vertical Aerospace finishes final eVTOL prototype; flight tests to start in 2026

Vertical Aerospace has completed its third full-scale eVTOL prototype and will begin piloted flight testing in January 2026.
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Newest Version of Boeing-Backed Autonomous VTOL Air Taxi Takes Off for the First Time

The Generation 6 prototype of Wisk Aero's Cora autonomous vertical take-off and landing aircraft flew for the first time.
New Atlas

Zero-pilot eVTOL pushes to achieve feat never done before

Boeing subsidiary Wisk Aero's Generation 6 eVTOL aircraft has completed its historic maiden flight. On December 16, 2025 at 12:26 pm PST, the autonomous passenger carrier lifted off from the Wisk ...
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30 Military Weapons That Seemed Perfect, Until They Entered Combat

Military weapons are often introduced with bold promises like greater efficiency, revolutionary design, and battlefield dominance on paper. But war has a way of stripping those promises down to their ...