Silicon Valley put down an ambitious marker in Dallas, with the multibillion dollar, international ride-sharing giant Uber on April 25 predicting that long-elusive, practical flying cars will arrive ...

Carter Aviation Technologies has unveiled its concept for a high-speed rotorcraft as it continues efforts to secure partners to begin production of its slowed-rotor/compound (SR/C) CarterCopter. The ...

Carter Aviation Technologies, plans to have its experimental CarterCopter at the Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-in and Expo at Florida’s Lakeland-Linder Airport April 5-10. The Wichita Falls, Texas, ...

The CarterCopter aircraft uses slow-rotor technology that enables it to: “Take off like a helicopter, transition to an autogyro, and fly like a fixed-wing aircraft,” according to CEO Jay Carter. Tests ...

Carter Aviation Technologies is transitioning from the flight-test phase to focus on the production and commercialization of its CarterCopter. The CarterCopter utilizes unique "slow-rotor" technology, ...

The CarterCopter, a slowed-rotor compound helicopter, broke the "Mu-1 barrier" (where rotor tip speed matches forward airspeed) during a test flight, reaching a true airspeed of 200 mph. This ...

More news out of the US military's "Transformer TX" flying car project today, as an alliance of aviation firms is awarded initial funds to start work on a combination of 4x4 Chelsea tractor and ...

A flying-car company which has struggled for 15 years to win acceptance for its radical gyrocopter/aeroplane technology may have finally broken through into the mainstream. It was announced this week ...

Carter Aviation Technologies believes its innovative Carter­Copter aircraft briefly, and unofficially, exceeded µ-1 (Mu-1) – the barrier to higher forward speeds in a rotorcraft – before suffering a ...

During a flight test on June 17, the innovative CarterCopter unofficially broke the Mu-1 barrier — a goal that eluded rotary wing builders until that day. Mu is the ratio of the aircraft’s forward ...

CarterCopter experienced a dramatic shift from celebrating a major aerodynamic breakthrough to the devastating news that their unique prototype gyrocopter was destroyed in a crash on the same day.