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* The Tempest in ''VideoGame/LEGOCityUndercover'' is this type of aircraft. Unlike most of the vehicles in the game, it isn't based on an existing LEGO set.
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* Almost all aircraft in ''Videogame/PlanetSide 2'' operate using gimballed jet engines, which function like the tiltrotors on an Osprey. The Galaxy transport, for example, gets a pair of huge engines on its front wings and a smaller pair on its rear wings, all of which can rotate to allow the enormous aircraft to hover in place or fly. The only ones that don't use external rotating engines are the Reaver (in-line vectored engines) and the Scythe (flies using reverse-engineered [[{{Precursors}} Vanu technology]]).
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* Almost all aircraft in ''Videogame/PlanetSide 2'' operate using gimballed rotating jet engines, which function like the tiltrotors on an Osprey. The Galaxy transport, for example, gets a pair of huge engines on its front wings and a smaller pair on its rear wings, all of which can rotate to allow the enormous aircraft to hover in place or fly. The only ones that don't use external rotating engines are the Reaver (in-line vectored engines) and the Scythe (flies using reverse-engineered [[{{Precursors}} Vanu technology]]).
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** And the sequel, ''XCOM2'', has a similar transport, though it's never named as a model number. It looks functionally similar to the Skyranger, but includes stealth technology to hide it from detection (allowing your soldiers to get into densely populated and protected areas without alerting alien troops). It uses the call sign Firebrand.
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** And the sequel, ''XCOM2'', ''VideoGame/XCOM2'', has a similar transport, though it's never named as a model number. It looks functionally similar to the Skyranger, but includes stealth technology to hide it from detection (allowing your soldiers to get into densely populated and protected areas without alerting alien troops). It uses the call sign Firebrand.
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* ''VideoGame/XCOMUFODefense'' has the Skyranger, a large Vertical Take-Off and Landing troop transport that can get from one side of the world to the other in about a 12 hours, carrying 14 fully loaded soldiers or as many as ''three'' light recon tanks. It pales in comparison to alien tech, but remains useful through the entire game because it doesn't use Elerium for fuel.
** The modern remake, ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' also has the Skyranger, which is toned down slightly. It can still get anywhere in the world in absolutely record time, but it only holds a maximum of 6 soldiers, and it never gets replaced. It uses the call sign Big Sky.
** And the sequel, ''XCOM2'', has a similar transport, though it's never named as a model number. It looks functionally similar to the Skyranger, but includes stealth technology to hide it from detection (allowing your soldiers to get into densely populated and protected areas without alerting alien troops). It uses the call sign Firebrand.
** The modern remake, ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' also has the Skyranger, which is toned down slightly. It can still get anywhere in the world in absolutely record time, but it only holds a maximum of 6 soldiers, and it never gets replaced. It uses the call sign Big Sky.
** And the sequel, ''XCOM2'', has a similar transport, though it's never named as a model number. It looks functionally similar to the Skyranger, but includes stealth technology to hide it from detection (allowing your soldiers to get into densely populated and protected areas without alerting alien troops). It uses the call sign Firebrand.
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* The Repulsine aircraft supposedly uses a pair of spinning, ridged, electrified metal discs to generate a vortex around the craft that sucks the whole mess upwards. The device looks like nothing so much as a classic FlyingSaucer straight from a 1950's alien invasion flick. However, its inventor, Viktor Schauberger, was a bit of a whackadoo and it seems that he left NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup of the machine.
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* The (largely theoretical) Repulsine aircraft supposedly uses a pair of spinning, ridged, electrified metal discs to generate a vortex around the craft that sucks the whole mess upwards. The device looks like nothing so much as a classic FlyingSaucer straight from a 1950's alien invasion flick. However, its (supposed) inventor, Viktor Schauberger, was a bit of a whackadoo and it seems that he left NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup of the machine.machine, if he ever actually built it.
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* The Repulsine aircraft supposedly uses a pair of spinning, ridged, electrified metal discs to generate a vortex around the craft that sucks the whole mess upwards. The device looks like nothing so much as a classic FlyingSaucer straight from a 1950's alien invasion flick. However, its inventor, Viktor Schauberger, was a bit of a whackadoo and it seems that he left NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup of the machine.
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* Enclave Vertibirds in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series are clearly inspired by the V-22 Osprey.
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* Enclave Vertibirds in the The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series has the Vertibirds which are clearly inspired by the V-22 Osprey.Osprey. Used by both the Enclave and, [[VideoGame/Fallout4 later]], the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel, they are often deployed in both fire support and troop transport roles in the wastelands of the post-apocalyptic United States.
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* ''Film/{{Dune|2021}}'' and ''Film/DunePartTwo'': Ornithopters are utilized on Arakkis by both off-world factions. They use vertical flapping wings to levitate and move.
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* ''Film/{{Dune|2021}}'' and ''Film/DunePartTwo'': Ornithopters are utilized on Arakkis Arakis by both off-world factions. They use vertical flapping wings to levitate and move.move, and in this intepretation, the ornithopters flap their wings like a dragonfly. The [[Film/Dune1984 1984 version]] instead did away with the flapping wings and has small VTOL aircrafts.
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* ''Literature/SpaceCadet''. The FarmBoy protagonist is picked up by a helicopter, which doesn't seem too strange until you realise it's a personal helicopter that his family fly themselves, their version of a family car--he mentions getting his [[KidsDrivingCars copter license at the age of 12]].
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* ''Literature/SpaceCadet''. ''Literature/SpaceCadetHeinlein'': The FarmBoy protagonist is picked up by a helicopter, which doesn't seem too strange until you realise it's a personal helicopter that his family fly themselves, their version of a family car--he car -- he mentions getting his [[KidsDrivingCars getting his copter license at the age of 12]].
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* ''VideoGame/RedAlert3'': The Soviet's Twinblade helicopter has two rotors (hence the name) and is a decent infantry-killer and base raider, but its most useful ability is to carry infantry and ''vehicles'' (even the monstrous Apocalypse tank) and drop them off safely.
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* The Ornithopters from ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' are something between a TropeMaker and UrExample. While, like with most of ''Dune'' there is a lot ambiguity of what exactly they look like, the thopters, are, well, ornithopters. That is to say that they move by flapping their wings, like an insect or bird depending on your interpretation. So while they popularized the idea of future people moving around in a non helicopter VTOL, few other works went with that specific route.
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* ''Literature/SpaceCadet''. The FarmBoy protagonist is picked up by a helicopter, which doesn't seem too strange until you realise it's a personal helicopter that his family fly themselves, their version of a family car--he mentions getting his [[KidsDrivingCars copter license at the age of 12]].
