Federal regulatory update creates first new class of aircraft in 80 years, sets the stage for future of passenger and cargo transport

Powered lift includes aircraft described by industry watchers as electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL. Using tilt rotors, eVTOL aircraft are designed to take off and land vertically like a helicopter and then transition into forward flight on fixed wings like a plane.

Powered-lift' becomes first new category of aircraft in nearly 80 years The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) this week released the final regulations for tiltrotors and other vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft,