Phase 1 included tethered flights, ground taxi testing and high-powered ground runs, all with a pilot on board. Vertical is now preparing to progress to piloted untethered thrustborne testing, as soon ...

The Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) Demo pilot plant, a $169 million, 10-megawatt supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) test facility at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San ...

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 ...