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

Carry a useful load of at least 40 percent of the vehicle's projected gross weight of 10,000-12,000 pounds Aurora's Phase 2 design for VTOL X-Plane envisions an unmanned aircraft with two large ...

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

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

The aircraft is capable of short takeoff and ... "XTI Aerospace uses supercomputer to advance TriFan 600 VTOL design" was originally created and published by Airport Technology, a GlobalData ...

Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has successfully flown an electric-powered, 115-lb (52-kg) autonomous drone that uses ...

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

Over the past few years a great deal of companies have tried their hand at creating vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft that could be used as part of air taxi services. A bunch of them ...

vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft to pitch to the DOD. It also raised about $430 million in equity capital, a chunk of which it said will go toward the next-generation design.

PteroDynamics Inc., an innovator in autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft systems, today announced an expansion of its contract with the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft ...

Cherokee Federal, the federal contracting division of Cherokee Nation Businesses, today unveiled the patent-pending and rapidly deployable MVP™ (Mobile Vertipad Platform), offering an unmatched mobile ...