The U.S. Air Force could field a next-generation airlifter to replace both the Boeing C-17 and Lockheed Martin C-5 as soon as 2038, with a key study set to begin within two years.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) initiated a program in December 1979, known as the Cargo-Experimental (C-X) competition, as a means of finding a new strategic airlift aircraft that was ...

BEIJING — Avicopter is testing a technology demonstrator for a vertical-takeoff-and-landing airplane with a central lift fan. The manufacturer, part of China’s state Avic group, exhibited the unmanned ...

Vertical take-off and landing aircraft are seen as the promised land of urban mobility, capable of transporting people from point A to point B much faster than cars presently can. Generally speaking, ...