Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 27—PLATTSBURGH — The Department of Defense's Agility Prime Program, which just secured an additional $20 million from the ...

The U.S. Air Force wants to experiment with using eVTOLs in its Agile Combat Employment concept of operations. Credit: Joby Aviation Hoping to show how electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft ...

Electric air taxi developer Joby Aviation has disclosed a $55 million extension to its Agility Prime contract with the US Air Force (USAF) to deliver and operate up to nine of its ...

Joby Aviation on Sept. 25 delivered the first electric vertical take-off and landing air taxi to Edwards Air Force Base to use in day-to-day cargo and passenger transportation. The delivery is a key ...

Last Thursday afternoon, leaders deemed the first demonstration of a flying orb by AFWERX’s Agility Prime effort a success. The event was the first in a series of steps toward the U.S. Air Force ...

The US Air Force's (USAF's) AFWERX venture is considering having aircraft participating in its Agility Prime programme operate in two high-level USAF exercises in 2021. Colonel Nathan Diller, AFWERX ...

AIR, creator of eVTOLs for the consumer market, today announced the next phase in its participation in the United States Air Force’s AFWERX Agility Prime program to help propel development of the ...

Textron subsidiary Pipistrel is joining other electric aircraft manufacturers in the US Air Force (USAF) Agility Prime initiative, which aims to explore potential military applications for ...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Austin, Texas-based Lift Aircraft with a new contract to continue developing its unique, single-seat, ultralight, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft ...

AFWerx is laying the groundwork this year to deliver an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft to an operational U.S. Air Force unit in 2025. Toward that goal, the service’s innovation unit is ...

The US Air Force’s (USAF’s) top officer views the service’s Agility Prime electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) effort as a way for the air force to develop an unmanned logistics capability.