Vertical Aerospace just notched a flight-testing milestone with a full-scale prototype of its six-passenger Valo eVTOL aircraft. On Monday, the UK-based company announced that it had completed a piloted transition flight, meaning the aircraft took off vertically like a helicopter...

For almost ten years now, we have been hearing about the promise of "new aviation," something that would vaguely resemble the 120-year-old technology that has defined traditional aviation since the Wright Brothers' flight in 1903. This revolutionary way to...