The combination of a tilt-wing (for improved aerodynamics) design with hybrid propulsion could be the winning formula for rugged aircraft that can handle challenging missions, with no emissions. Back ...

Shield AI's X-BAT fighter drone gets arrowhead redesign for high-speed flight, packing F-35 payload capacity with VTOL ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Navy is looking into using drones to deliver critical repair cargo to broken warships. The BlueWater Maritime Logistics UAS ...

The advances of Aurora’s demonstrator ensure that the company’s fan-in-wing VTOL experiments will extend well beyond DARPA’s SPRINT. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, is poised to redefine ...

airframe platform for professional B2B VTOL UAV applications, with a focus on long-range and endurance-driven missions. With FlyBlocks, UAV companies start from a validated and controlled structural ...

The Cavorite X7 aims to reach where no other eVTOL has, and only a few helicopters can. It's not a geographical destination, but the combined ability to fly in the clouds (literally) and in icing ...

The U.S. Army and Petrel Technologies have tested the AERO Sky hybrid VTOL drone, capable of releasing armed FPV drones mid-air to extend strike range. The live-fire exercise with the 101st Airborne ...

Abstract: In an era where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become integral to various industries, understanding the intricacies of their design is essential to future aerospace engineers. This ...

Spirit AeroSystems’ units in Northern Ireland and Scotland have tentatively agreed to collaborate with Skyworks Aeronautics on the design of the latter’s proposed VertiJet vertical take-off and ...

Griffon’s Valiant hybrid-electric VTOL uncrewed aircraft has been flown under a U.S. Army rapid prototyping effort. Credit: David Hylton, U.S. Army DARPA has selected nine companies for the initial ...

Czech advanced air mobility developer Zuri has revealed more details of its scaled second-generation technology demonstrator – referred to as TD2.0 – including significant changes to the aircraft’s ...