Imagine a battery-powered plane that has 10 engines and can take off like a helicopter and fly efficiently like an aircraft. That is a concept being developed by NASA researchers called Grea... Read more
Shorter take-offs and landings for aircraft, and better manoeuvreabilty for UAVs are just two of the possible benefits of an EU-supported breakthrough in propulsion technology. The vector th... Read more
Boeing could work out a contracting situation in which the Pentagon asks Boeing to run specific operations with its device Unmanned systems are commonplace in the world of aviation. Â But it... Read more
It’s a frontier that’s ripe for autonomous technologies In 2009, Popular Mechanics gave a Breakthrough Award to Sikorsky’s X2 Technology Demonstrator, a dual-rotor, coaxial... Read more
LaserMotive, a Kent, Wash., company specializing in delivering electric power via lasers, unveiled the first tethered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft system powered by laser ov... Read more
The unmanned and remote piloted aerial vehicles market is seen as the natural first step for the technology Attempts to combine the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities of a hel... Read more
European helicopter maker AgustaWestland has unveiled the world’s first electric tilt-rotor aircraft and says it has already made several flights. Like the more famous Bell Boeing V-22 Ospre... Read more
The dirigible airship, the oddball aircraft of another era, is making a comeback. California-based Aeros Corporation has created a prototype of its new breed of variable buoyancy aircraft an... Read more
AACUS, by contrast, would be a robot in the truest sense We may be closer to the day when United States Marines will, within a matter of minutes, use a handheld app to summon robotic... Read more
The UAS weighs about five pounds (2.27 kg), and is small enough to be carried in a backpack California-based aerospace company AeroVironment has developed some fascinating Unmanned Aircraft... Read more
Austrian research company IAT21 has presented a new type of aircraft at the Paris Air Show which has the potential to become aviation’s first disruptive technology since the jet engine... Read more