Here's some interesting food for thought based on Chinese-focused blogosphere chatter about the existence of the J-18 vertical/short take-off and landing fighter that's rumored to have entered flight ...

The AV-8B Harrier is now nearly retired—but its mission profile will live on in the F-35B Lightning II, which shares many of the same capabilities.

Fig. 1: The eV/STOL vehicle hovering with deflected slipstream turned downward by coflow jet flap. Fig. 2: The eV/STOL vehicle at high efficiency cruise with coflow jet tandem wings and vortex ...

U.S. startup CoFlow Jet has struck an agreement with NASA to commercialize deflected-slipstream technology that would enable an electric vertical-/short-takeoff-and-landing (eV/STOL) aircraft to ...

The 2020 STIHL National Championship Air Races near Reno, Nevada, was set to officially open its doors to spectators on September 16. However, as with all major air-show events planned after March of ...

Since the early days of powered vertical flight, there have been a wide range of labels placed on approaches to aircraft lift and cruise propulsion, also called the “configuration.” An early taxonomy ...