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Piasecki Expands its VTOL Family

• 29 Apr 2025 08:00 AM
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Growth through acquisition and stronger ties to the civil and military remains part of the company’s vision for the future. 

TVF 2025 Highlights AAM Progress and Challenges — Part 5: eVTOL Propulsion Developments

• 25 Mar 2025 01:31 PM
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The Vertical Flight Society’s TVF 2025 was held at Phoenix Convention Center on Feb. 4–6, 2025, including the 12th Electric VTOL symposium and the 11th Biennial Autonomous VTOL Technical Meeting. 

The TVF 2025 program featured presentations by two electric motor companies, three developers of hybrid-electric (heVTOL) propulsion systems and four companies developing hydrogen-electric VTOL (H2eVTOL) aircraft.

Forum 80: Ideas Earn Their Way

• 24 Jun 2024 11:45 AM
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The Vertical Flight Society Forum in Montréal considered promising technologies to improve safety, boost performance, cut operating costs and broaden markets.

Hydrogen Begins to Take Off

• 21 Jun 2024 10:07 AM
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Vertical lift companies are breaking new ground in hydrogen propulsion. Four companies are profiled here: Alaka'i Technologies, Joby Aviation, Piasecki Aircraft Corporation and Unither Biolectronics. 

TVF 2024 Reaches New Heights

• 29 Feb 2024 11:37 AM
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On Feb. 6–8, the Vertical Flight Society hosted its Transformative Vertical Flight (TVF) 2024 meeting in Santa Clara, California.

VFS Leads the Future of Air Mobility at Airtec

• 06 Jan 2024 06:40 AM
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Held in the high-tech city of Augsburg, Germany, Oct. 25– 27, 2023, Airtec is an annual European meeting place for suppliers and aircraft manufacturers to find each other and to establish new business relationships.

Four Companies Dash for DARPA’s SPRINT

• 25 Dec 2023 04:31 AM
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On Nov. 1, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that it had selected four companies — Aurora Flight Sciences, Bell, Northrop Grumman and Piasecki Aircraft — to design prototypes for a high-speed vertical takeoff and landing (HSVTOL) X-Plane.

Air Force, Army to Develop Heavy VTOL Drones

• 25 Dec 2023 04:11 AM
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The US Air Force and Army awarded contracts to multiple firms to develop heavy-lift vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drones.

Hydrogen Gains Ground

• 07 Nov 2023 04:45 PM
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In conjunction with the 18th UAS Summit & Expo, the HYSKY Society held its first conference, FLYING HY. Headed by former VFS hydrogen advisor Danielle McLean — who initiated the hydrogen electric vertical takeoff and landing (H2eVTOL) aircraft efforts at VFS — the educational non-profit HYSKY is a spinoff of the VFS H2eVTOL Council.

Forum 79: Civil and Military Air Mobility Innovations

• 18 Jul 2023 10:59 AM
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Nearly 1,200 people attended the 79th Annual Forum in West Palm Beach, Florida.