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 ...

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 ...

Multicopter small UAVs are popular because of their ease of use, but their payload and performance capabilities are limited. So NASA is seeking input on the technical barriers to greater use of larger ...

Flying rovers may someday explore Saturn’s moon, Titan, thanks to futuristic aerial vehicle designs submitted by top minority university students for a nationwide NASA design contest. NASA Ames ...

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

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 ...

Uber has hired a former NASA engineer to head its aviation department in an effort to push forward its ambitions to build a flying car. Mark Moore—who has 30 years of experience at NASA—will join 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2010, an advanced aircraft engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center named Mark Moore published a white paper outlining the feasibility of electric aircrafts that could take off and land like ...