The drone was funded partly by a 24-month contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Operational Energy Capability Improvement Fund (OECIF) ...

Swift Engineering is known for race car designs more than prototype aircraft, but with its successful role designing and building a concept jet for Eclipse Aviation has made a bold leap into the ...

On April 28th, the Swift 020, the first UAS featuring X-Blade Technology™ had a successful completely autonomous marine flight test excursion off the coast in Orange County, CA. The test, one in a ...

Swift Engineering, Inc. flew the first fully autonomous flight demonstration in the port city of Kobe, Japan on July 21, 2018. In attendance during the event was Governor of the Hyogo prefecture, ...

Swift Engineering will fly an XRDi 15hp (11kW) heavy fuel engine on a Killer Bee unmanned air vehicle by mid-to-late May, with the effort aligned with the US military's "one fuel mandate", aimed in ...

Swift Engineering has flown the first in a planned family of commercial persistent stratospheric unmanned aircraft. The 72-ft.-span, solar-powered, high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) UAV was flown ...

TUCSON, Ariz. , May 12, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has teamed with Swift Engineering, Inc. to provide the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps with an unmanned aircraft system for ...