Electra.aero Inc. recently demonstrated the value of its hybrid-electric Ultra-STOL (short takeoff and landing) technology to provide critical military logistics support to areas that are impossible ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) initiated a program in December 1979, known as the Cargo-Experimental (C-X) competition, as a means of finding a new strategic airlift aircraft that was ...

Inside the audacious plan to convert a C-130 Hercules into a rocket-assisted Super STOL aircraft capable of landing in a confined urban space for a daring hostage rescue in Iran. Faced with an ever ...