XTI Aerospace secured $55 million in funding to develop its TriFan 600 VTOL aircraft, resulting in a post-money valuation of approximately $275 million. The TriFan 600 is a unique fixed-wing VTOL ...

Despite past successes with military VTOL jets, creating a civilian VTOL jet has proven elusive, as exemplified by the duPont Aerospace DP-1 project. The DP-1, a smaller-scale model of the ambitious ...

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Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed its latest concept for a low-drag, fan-in-blended-wing body design for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program aimed at producing a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. During the 1950s a number of aircraft ...

VTOL drones may be versatile, but the weight and aerodynamic drag of their extra hardware results in a shorter range than that of their fixed-wing-only counterparts. That's where the FLARES system ...

American and Soviet pilots alike had their jaws hit the floor the first time they saw the British Hawker Siddeley Harrier take to the sky as if by magic back in the late 1960s. Though on paper, the ...

Key Points - The Convair Model 200 was a supersonic, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter jet proposed for the US Navy in the 1970s. -It was designed to operate from a new class of small "Sea ...

Pegasus two-seat gyroplane is a rebirth of the type-certified Avian 2/180 gyroplane. Credit: ARC Aerosystems UK startup ARC Aerosystems has secured the first sale of its Pegasus two-seat autogyro, the ...

Whether a VTOL drone can be used as a civilian or a military one it's up to other people, but those who made the Atlis designed it to lift and carry hundreds of pounds attached to it and fly a few ...

Aergility Corporation announced today that it will be unveiling its full-scale ATLIS hybrid cargo VTOL UAV prototype on April 25th. As a result of years of development and testing, the innovative ...