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

VTOL X-Plane showcased ambitious goals for vertical flight and speed, yet program cancellation exposed new directions in ...

The Bell XV-3 was America’s first tilt-rotor aircraft, designed to take off ... it paved the way for modern VTOL aircraft. But during testing, strange issues threatened its success.

Part of the charm of quadcopters is the challenge that building and flying them presents ... his creative itch with this radio-controlled tilt-rotor airplane that presents some unique problems ...

Sikorsky on Monday detailed recent successful demonstrations with its “rotor blown wing” unmanned aircraft system (UAS), ...

That's where disruption happens' The first VTOL aircraft designs were early helicopters. Then came designs like lift jets, tail-sitter aircraft, and tilt rotors. PteroDynamics has now patented a ...

Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky has successfully flown its "rotor blown wing" drone in both helicopter and fixed-wing flight modes ...

Sikorsky has successfully completed vertical-to-forward flight transitions of its autonomous rotor-blown-wing demonstrator, ...

this allows STOL and VTOL aircraft to not only take off from short runways, it also enhances flight controls. In addition, Sikorsky says its RBW design also helps tail-sitter or tilt-rotor ...

Enter the company’s newest project, the Jetoptera 2000, a VTOL flying car that can lift off and land vertically. But if a flying car wasn’t intriguing enough, the Jetoptera 2000 is also ...

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