The field of aviation is constantly evolving, and one of the most interesting recent ...

The speed, flexibility, and strategic advantage has always defined the history of air combat. Since the first ...

Boeing unveiled its Collaborative Transformational Rotorcraft (CxR) concept, a new family of modular, tiltrotor VTOL drones designed for various military missions like logistics, attack, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

DARPA has selected six companies to take concepts for a shipborne vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft through a preliminary design review (PDR) on the way to flying a planned X-plane ...

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 ...

Sikorsky plans to have the power systems tested for its hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (HEX VTOL) demonstrator aircraft ready by year’s end to begin ground runs in 2025, citing it as a ...

The Vertiia is one of today's most impressive VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft. It's a trailblazer for Australia's AAM (Advanced Air Mobility) and a global industry innovator, claiming to ...

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 ...