With a traditional airplane, a propellor or jet engine pulls it forward, and lift is created as air subsequently flows over the wings. FanWing aircraft are a little different. They have a powered ...

A FanWing Ltd Fanwing unmanned air vehicle has demonstrated that it can rotate at 1m (3ft). The Fanwing aircraft uses a bladed rotor turning on a horizontal axis, which acts as a thick wing. This very ...

The FanWing short take-off unmanned air vehicle has demonstrated it can get airborne after a ground roll of just 1m (3ft). The UAV uses a bladed rotor turning on a horizontal axis, which acts like a ...

March 2, 2010 The FanWing aircraft concept has been around for a while but this is the first time we’ve seen working models. It gets rid of the propeller and adopts a rotating cylinder for propulsion.

The FanWing has to be weirdest aircraft ever devised: it doesn’t use rotors or jets for propulsion, but a patented “distributed-propulsion vortex-lift” technology which is similar to the blade ...