Boeing company Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a flying-wing design with embedded lift fans as its candidate for a DARPA program to build a high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) X-plane.
The Manta vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fixed-wing utilizes a Y3 configuration with a tilting rotor design, combining the advantages of multirotor hover capability with the efficient cruising ...
About a year ago the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) introduced to the world the companies that were tasked with working on something called the AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less ...
Sikorsky’s rotor blown wing is a hybrid-electric flying wing with semi-articulated rotors for control in hover. Credit: Sikorsky Sikorsky is getting a second chance to build an advanced rotorcraft for ...
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 ...
What if your car could fly? That's the basic question behind Jetoptera's ongoing mission to create a fluidic propulsion system that makes aerial mobility more commonplace. Enter the company's newest ...
Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin’s decision to build a hybrid tilt-wing technology demonstrator is a significant step forward for eVTOL aircraft. We are in a unique position to say this, as Dufour ...
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Nov. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The fixed-wing VTOL UAV market is projected to grow from USD 0.69 billion in 2025 to USD 1.20 billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of 11.7% during the ...
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Some of the most extreme aircraft designs ever proposed pushed far beyond practical limits. Nuclear-powered flying wings, VTOL airliners, submersible aircraft, and airborne missile carriers promised ...
Sikorsky on Monday detailed recent successful demonstrations with its “rotor blown wing” unmanned aircraft system (UAS), flying its prototype in both helicopter and “winged aircraft” mode through a ...
When one thinks about military drones they tend to image the largest of them, things like the RQ-4 Global Hawk or the MQ-1 Predator. These are also some of the most powerful presently flying in the ...