NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Austin Peay State University is launching the state's first rotor-wing program. "We're not only the only one in the state of Tennessee, but in every state surrounding Tennessee.

Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky demonstrates the flight capabilities of its rotor blown wing unmanned aircraft system at its facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Lockheed Martin) Through extensive flight ...

VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) drones already have some advantages over multicopters and fixed-wing drones, but could they offer even better functionality? The designers of the ROTORwing seem to ...

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT) has successfully validated the advanced control laws to successfully fly a ‘rotor blown wing’ uncrewed aerial system (UAS) in both helicopter and ...

Excess reaction-drive rotor-hub friction could delay start of forward-flight tests Boeing Phantom Works plans to resume flight testing of the X-50A Dragonfly canard rotor/wing (CRW) technology ...

Boeing has begun flight testing its X-50A Dragonfly Canard Rotor Wing (CRW) concept demonstrator, completing the long-awaited first hover at the US Army Proving Ground in Yuma, Arizona last week.

December 6, 2005 Boeing’s second canard rotor/wing (CRW) X-50A Dragonfly unmanned air vehicle (UAV) has successfully completed a four-minute hover flight at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground ...

They say that drummers make the best helicopter pilots, because to master the controls of rotary-wing aircraft, you really need to be able to do something different with each limb and still have all ...

Once you realize you can make almost anything fly if you strap a big enough prop and motor to it, you really start thinking outside of the box. That’s what [Rodger] did and he’s come up with this very ...

A type of blended wing body multi-rotor vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, which is a key national defense project of China that's expected to play both military and civilian roles, has passed an ...