Building hardware is rarely a straight path from idea to finished product. Most teams begin with a rough concept, test ...

The answer to these questions in order is no, kind of, and yes. The Lucid Gravity is the startup automaker’s upcoming crossover SUV, but in many ways it redefines the genre in terms of packaging, ...

Phase 1 included tethered flights, ground taxi testing and high-powered ground runs, all with a pilot on board. Vertical is now preparing to progress to piloted untethered thrustborne testing, as soon ...

Vertical Aerospace completed the first phase of crewed testing for its VX4 eVTOL aircraft, involving tethered hover flights and various simulated failure scenarios. The VX4 prototype demonstrated a 20 ...

Vertical’s most advanced full-scale prototype is key step towards certification of aircraft. 60% of this prototype’s technology is from Vertical’s strategic aerospace partners GKN Aerospace, Hanwha, ...

Radian Aerospace’s subscale prototype for its Radian One space plane sits on a runway in the United Arab Emirates. (Radian Aerospace Photo) Seattle-based Radian Aerospace has finished the first round ...

World Cup Cross-Country racing has kicked off back in continental Europe, and with it comes a new batch of lightweight mountain bike prototypes engineered to go fast, and what better way to make your ...

Autonomous air taxi developer Wisk Aero has handed a full-scale “Gen 6” prototype to its flight-test and operations team. The Mountain View-based start-up revealed the completed aircraft in 8 December ...

At the PARI Hypersonics Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center (HAMTC), from left: Nate Humbert, lead additive manufacturing engineer, GE Additive; Will DeVerter, aeronautics and astronautics ...

Mazda has finally taken a significant step towards entering the American electric vehicle (EV) market by initiating testing of its long-awaited U.S. EV prototype. This move, announced on November 14, ...

Vertical Aerospace expects to complete its second VX4 prototype “in the coming weeks”, leading to the restart of its flight-test programme in the second quarter. UK-based start-up Vertical has already ...

Final prototype to expand flight test capacity and enable public demonstrations Initial all-electric testing ahead of hybrid-electric flights in 2026 Vertical progresses towards full piloted ...