The key to Short Takeoff and Landing (STOL) operations is the ability to fly slow– really slow. That’s how you get up fast without a long takeoff roll to build up speed. Usually, this involves layers ...

John Langford, founder and former CEO of Aurora Flight Sciences, is launching a new venture to develop hybrid-electric regional transport aircraft. The new company, called Electra, is planned to ...

Government and industry representatives are currently at work formulating a rule for certifying the noise levels of short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft. Conventional aircraft are primarily ...

MIT’s Surge I is a remote-control subscale model of an electric ducted fan ultra-STOL aircraft. Credit: MIT In 2019, a student team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology flew a subscale model of an ...