One of the most exciting evolving niches within unmanned aircraft systems and personal aerial vehicles is that of hybrid Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft, which provide a middle ground ...

We see a lot of quadcopters, and even the occasional octocopter around here. But this build does it with just two propellers. It’s a tiltrotor build which allows the two upward-pointing propellers to ...

Urban aerial surveillance capabilities are already seen as a crucial element in the information mosaic required for any smart city of the future, and last week's TM Forum Smart City In Focus ...

Modern radio-controlled multi-rotor drone can be incredibly agile, but can only make orientation changes around the yaw axis while remaining in approximately the same position. Researchers at ETH ...

Developed by Bell Helicopter as a platform with the design option to be either a UAS or a manned scout aircraft, the V-247 Vigilant fits into the Marine Corps’ Future Vertical Lift concept, which is ...

The aircraft is meant to develop and mature rotor blown wing design, which can now be applied to larger aircraft for unmanned ...

The revolutionary AgustaWestland “Project Zero” all-electric tilt rotor technology demonstrator, designed, built and tested in twelve months, was officially unveiled on Mar. 4, 2013, just prior to the ...

TEL AVIV, Israel, March 11 (UPI) -- Israel Aerospace Industries, a major manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles, has unveiled a tilt-rotor drone dubbed "the Ghost" that weights just less than 9 ...

At the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Bell helicopter has unveiled its new V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor drone for the US Marine Corps. Like the company's V-22 Osprey, the Unmanned Aerial System ...