DARPA’s AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY program, known as ANCILLARY, shows six design concepts for a low-weight, large-payload, long-endurance VTOL uncrewed X-plane. The ...
Grumman’s G-674 Nutcracker was a bizarre Cold War concept for a VTOL aircraft that could operate from small warships by ...
Doors covering the embedded lift fans are open in the vertical flight phase. Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a refined concept for a fan-in-wing high-speed ...
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), today unveiled its plan to build, test and fly a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing demonstrator (HEX / VTOL) with a tilt-wing configuration.
Essentially, the outcome will be a proof-of-concept demonstrator for a new class of military aircraft with the ability to move troops and/or cargo much faster than helicopters, with the operational ...
Czech company Zuri is advancing on the path to full certification of its flagship five-seat hybrid-electric VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing). A second-generation demonstrator aircraft, the TD 2.0, ...
Sikorsky has been flying its Rotor Blown Wing (RBW) vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) prototype over the past year and a half to evaluate the design and has briefed the U.S. Army on the aircraft ...