The aircraft is meant to develop and mature rotor blown wing design, which can now be applied to larger aircraft for unmanned ...

The brief for the VTOL X-Plane is certainly impressive – develop ... miles per hour), carry 40 percent of its total weight in cargo – but it seems Aurora's design takes that further, using ...

World War 2 had revealed a flaw for the US Navy. Their convoy ships that resupplied fleets, armies, and bases across the ...

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company has successfully validated the advanced control laws to successfully fly a ‘rotor blown ...

The design of LightingStrike VTOL X-Plane includes the first-ever distributed hybrid-electric propulsion system. LightningStrike VTOL X-Plane | AFCEA International Skip to main content ...

Mere weeks after signing an agreement with Utah Aerospace and Defense to bring Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) to the ...

Houston-based helicopter operator Bristow Helicopters plans to purchase 100 Chaparral hybrid-electric VTOL cargo aircraft from Elroy Air. FedEx and Elroy Air plan to launch test flights of the ...

The Nuuva V300 is a long-range, large-capacity hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft ... It loads cargo through the nose of its fuselage and can hold up to ...

[Peter Ryseck]’s Mini QBIT quadrotor biplane brings in some of the efficiency of fixed-wing flight, without all the complexity usually associated with VTOL aircraft. The Mini QBIT is just a 3 ...

To make experimentation even easier, [Stephen Carlson] and other researchers from the RoboWork Lab at the University of Nevada created the MiniHawk, a 3D printed VTOL aircraft for use a test bed ...