Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed its latest concept for a low-drag, fan-in-blended-wing body design for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program aimed at producing a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sikorsky has already shown it can make a damn good chopper. Now it’s ready to prove it can make a fleet of futuristic hybrid ...

DARPA has selected six companies to take concepts for a shipborne vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft through a preliminary design review (PDR) on the way to flying a planned X-plane ...

Australian zero-emission aircraft designer and manufacturer AMSL Aero has today signed an order and received deposits for 10 of its Vertiia vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, with an ...

Doors covering the embedded lift fans are open in the vertical flight phase. Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a refined concept for a fan-in-wing high-speed ...

The Bell X-22 was one of America’s most ambitious VTOL experiments, using four tilting ducted fans to combine the hover ...

Sikorsky has advanced to the next phase of a DARPA project to develop an unmanned VTOL aircraft capable of flying all-weather missions from ships or land. The rotor blown wing VTOL tail-sitter is ...

Vertical lift manufacturer Bell has delivered a test article to the US Air Force that aims to demonstrate a novel technology concept that combines the vertical take-off and landing traits of a ...

It's only been several months since we first heard about DARPA's plan to develop a new and more capable VTOL drone for military use, and we now know the names of the companies working on the initial ...

ESSINGTON, Pa., September 10, 2024 (Newswire.com) – In an aviation milestone, Piasecki Aircraft Corporation (PiAC) successfully conducted the first flight of its innovative proof of concept tilt-duct ...

Demonstrator aircraft integrates hybrid turbine into Joby’s proven electric aircraft platform Aircraft flew just three months after announcement of hybrid concept, demonstrating value of vertical ...