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News from Oshkosh: EAS and EAA AirVenture 2025

• 22 Jul 2025 10:04 AM
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This year’s 19th Electric Aircraft Symposium featured 40 speakers from across the advanced air mobility landscape from North America, Europe and Australia.

The E-VTOL Flight Test Council: Five Years of Progress

• 03 Jul 2025 06:34 AM
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VFS also boasts a long history of promoting professional development. Being an inclusive organization casting a broad net, VFS also sponsors an independent council focused on flight testing two nascent technologies: electric power and novel vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) — which the council condenses to “verticraft” — configurations.

VFS Downwash and Outwash Workshop

• 29 Jun 2025 07:04 AM
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The Vertical Flight Society held a two-hour Downwash and Outwash (DWOW) workshop on May 19 as part of Forum 81 (see “Forum 81 — Ideas Awaiting Orders,” Vertiflite, Jul/Aug 2025), organized by VFS Director of Strategy Mike Hirschberg.

Press Release: World’s Longest-Running Electric Aircraft Symposium Returns to Oshkosh, Wisconsin

• 12 Jun 2025 10:22 AM
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Dozens of the world’s leading electric aircraft developers and technology experts will be speaking at the 19th Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium (EAS), hosted by the Vertical Flight Society (VFS). This exciting event will once again be held online and in person in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on July 19–20, 2025.

Harmony Advances Quiet Propeller Technology

• 28 Apr 2025 09:06 PM
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Vertiflite recently caught up with Moble Benedict, an associate professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University and founder of its Advanced Vertical Flight Laboratory (AVFL) with 20 years of experience in VTOL aircraft concepts.

Design Build Vertical Flight 2025

• 28 Apr 2025 07:00 AM
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The Vertical Flight Society’s fifth annual Design-Build-Vertical Flight (DBVF) Student Competition returned to Churchville, Maryland, this spring with renewed energy, an urgent mission theme and a powerful demonstration of student ingenuity.

World’s First Piloted Hydrogen VTOL Lifts Off in Quebec

• 27 Apr 2025 03:30 AM
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The first piloted aircraft to make a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) powered by a hydrogen fuel cell made its first flight at Roland-Désourdy Airport (ICAO: CZBM) in Bromont, Québec, Canada, on March 27, 2025.

UK CAA Downwash/Outwash webinar

• 15 Apr 2025 09:24 AM
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The Vertical Flight Society will hold a 1-hour webinar on Tuesday, April 29 at 11:30 am - 12:30 pm US EDT (GMT-4) featuring an outbrief of the UK Civil Aviation Authority

TVF 2025 Resources

• 25 Mar 2025 05:00 PM
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The Vertical Flight Society held its Transformative Vertical Flight (TVF) 2025 meeting at the Phoenix Convention Center on Feb. 4–6, 2025. This critical meeting included the 12th Electric VTOL Symposium and the 11th Biennial Autonomous VTOL Technical Meeting, as well as the annual Short Course on Electric VTOL Design. Check out all these great resources!

TVF 2025 Highlights AAM Progress and Challenges — Part 5: eVTOL Propulsion Developments

• 25 Mar 2025 01:31 PM
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The Vertical Flight Society’s TVF 2025 was held at Phoenix Convention Center on Feb. 4–6, 2025, including the 12th Electric VTOL symposium and the 11th Biennial Autonomous VTOL Technical Meeting. 

The TVF 2025 program featured presentations by two electric motor companies, three developers of hybrid-electric (heVTOL) propulsion systems and four companies developing hydrogen-electric VTOL (H2eVTOL) aircraft.