Mark Moore, the NASA engineer who evangelized electric-powered aircraft and on-demand mobility within the agency, is joining ride-hailing giant Uber to advance its Elevate concept for vertical-takeoff ...

Mark Moore is a man with a mission. For 32 years an aeronautical engineer at NASA Langley Research Center, he has joined Uber as engineering director for aviation, working to enable the ride-hailing ...

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

San Francisco, California, Elroy Air, the Aerospace + Logistics company developing the world’s first end-to-end automated vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo systems, is teaming with ...

The Bell X-14 was an unconventional experimental Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) jet, noted for its modest performance, "agricultural" aesthetic, and use of repurposed parts, distinguishing it ...

The Army Research Lab and the University of Texas at Austin have been chosen as partners for Uber Elevate, the ridesharing company's venture into a flying taxi service dubbed UberAIR. ARL and UT will ...

Seventeen companies have signed Space Act Agreements with NASA to participate in the agency’s first Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge, a series of technology demonstrations meant to test the ...

Experts at NASA's Ames Research Center will work alongside a team from Uber this week to run computer simulation tests of future air travel over urban environments. The tests will be conducted in ...

Helicopter pioneer Igor Sikorsky once said, “The helicopter approaches closer than any other (vehicle) to fulfillment of mankind’s ancient dream of the flying horse and the magic carpet.” Indeed—the ...