On a quiet Brazilian country airfield, Eve Air Mobility’s near-final engineering prototype accomplished something unprecedented. For the first time, the back pusher propeller was able to accelerate while in flight. That simple change marked the start of the transition phase, in which vertical rotor lift begins to give way to wing lift.
The Pivotal BlackFly, a single-seat vertical take-off and landing vehicle, has reached a major milestone: 1,000 piloted flights, a record for any powered-lift eVTOL of its kind. This was announced at the UP.Summit in late September 2025, a big deal for a machine that’s been flying for over 10 years now since its 2011 debut.
Archer Aviation announced that its Midnight eVTOL air taxi has successfully completed a key flight test program as it builds upon four years of flight testing, including two years of full-scale flight testing with Maker.
Electric aircraft are nothing new, but one with a tandem-wing design most certainly is. Introducing the eMagic One eVTOL, which boasts a maximum takeoff weight of 420 kg (925 lb) and can hit 106 mph, thanks to a lift-plus-cruise design, complete with eight lifting propellers distributed across two rails connecting the wings as well as a tractor propeller up front for forward flight.
It’s official, the very first eVTOL drag race has been completed for Airspeeder’s EXA Series. It consisted of two remotely-flown Alauda Aeronautics Mk3 Speeders pit against each other on a 300m drag strip somewhere in South Australia.