Boeing company Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a flying-wing design with embedded lift fans as its candidate for a DARPA program to build a high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) X-plane.
Sikorsky’s rotor blown wing is a hybrid-electric flying wing with semi-articulated rotors for control in hover. Credit: Sikorsky Sikorsky is getting a second chance to build an advanced rotorcraft for ...
About a year ago the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) introduced to the world the companies that were tasked with working on something called the AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less ...
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 ...
The advances of Aurora’s demonstrator ensure that the company’s fan-in-wing VTOL experiments will extend well beyond DARPA’s SPRINT. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, is poised to redefine ...
Sikorsky has successfully completed vertical-to-forward flight transitions of its autonomous rotor-blown-wing demonstrator, an all-electric aircraft the company is using to better understand the ...
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The biggest aircraft ever designed that never flew
Some of the most extreme aircraft designs ever proposed pushed far beyond practical limits. Nuclear-powered flying wings, VTOL airliners, submersible aircraft, and airborne missile carriers promised ...
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