Vertical’s VX4 prototype begins untethered, piloted thrustborne testing following expansion of Permit to Fly from the UK Civil Aviation Authority. Phase 2 of testing includes vertical take-off and ...

Vertical Aerospace has progressed to the next stage of flight testing its VX4 prototype, completing initial piloted low-speed thrustborne sorties. Taking place at the company’s flight-test centre at ...

The United Kingdom eVTOL company, Vertical Aerospace, started their 2025 right and with a massive achievement with their VX4 aircraft which achieved a new milestone featuring its thrust-borne maneuver ...

On May 27, Vertical Aerospace (London, U.K.) achieved piloted wingborne flight of a winged electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in open airspace. The landmark flight of the VX4 ...

On Wednesday, 16 July, the piloted VX4 prototype flew 17 miles from Vertical’s Flight Test Centre at Cotswold Airport to RAF Fairford, a Royal Air Force station which is used by the United States ...

Vertical completes Phase 2 of its piloted thrustborne testing with the VX4 prototype exceeding expectations for stability and performance The company is now preparing for the next stage in its testing ...

Vertical Aerospace’s chief test pilot Si Davies has hailed the success of the initial wing-borne flight of the company’s VX4 prototype, the first of around a dozen such sorties expected with the ...

Vertical Aerospace’s (NYSE:EVTL) VX4 prototype successfully completed the phase 3 wingborne flight testing, exceeding expectations across the piloted flight test and moving the aircraft closer to its ...

Under this expanded collaboration, Honeywell and Vertical will work together to certify two of the most critical systems on the VX4 that make it safer and easier to fly: the aircraft management system ...

I kind of lost track of how many aviation startups are trying their hand at what may very well be a very lucrative business, that of carrying people and cargo from place to place in vertical take-off ...

Vertical Aerospace has taken a major step toward commercializing its VX4 winged eVTOL, or electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Last Thursday, the electric aviation startup's prototype ...