The X-13 was developed in the 1950s, at a time when aerospace research was perhaps at its most fervent. The Ryan X-13 ...

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

Over the past few years a great deal of companies have tried their hand at creating vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft that could be used as part of air taxi services. A bunch of them ...

Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has announced that the ministry will collaborate with IIT-Madras to develop VTOL vehicles.

[Peter Ryseck]’s Mini QBIT quadrotor biplane brings in some of the efficiency of fixed-wing flight, without all the complexity usually associated with VTOL aircraft. The Mini QBIT is just a 3 ...

For a long time fixed wing VTOL drones were tricky to work with, but with the availability of open source flight control and autopilot software this has changed. To make experimentation even ...

Kanazawa Institute conducts a VTOL drone test, aiming for breakthroughs in payload capacity and flight range for emergency response.

Credit: Moya Aero GoAero has announced the winners of the first stage of its contest to field an emergency response vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft, awarding $500,000 total divided ...

PteroDynamics Inc., an innovator in autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft systems, today announced an expansion of its contract with the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft ...