The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has assigned the designation X-76 to its high-speed vertical takeoff and landing aircraft prototype under the SPRINT program, a step that follows a formal ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The US Navy is looking into using drones to deliver critical repair cargo to broken warships. The BlueWater Maritime Logistics UAS project seeks innovative VTOL designs. The unique PteroDynamics ...
Avro Canada proposed a flat-rising VTOL day fighter for a US Navy program intended to let smaller ships operate fighter cover ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Army has detailed an extensive plan for evaluating hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) platforms and enabling technologies, with an aim to hold capability demonstrations between ...
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