Quadcopters are great for maneuverability and slow, stable flight, but it comes at the cost of efficiency. [Peter Ryseck]’s Mini QBIT quadrotor biplane brings in some of the efficiency of fixed-wing ...

Nearly 120 years into the history of modern flight, I did not expect biplanes to make a comeback in drone form. Yet the STRIX, from the Australian wing of defense giant BAE Systems, is exactly that.

It is set to be the drone that can land anywhere, and turn any US Navy ship into an aircraft carrier. Northrop Grumman has revealed its flying-wing tailsitter drone will take to the air in 2018 - and ...

An RC VTOL aircraft always makes for a compelling project, but ensuring the transition between hover and forward flight can be quite challenging. In the video after the break, [Nicholas Rehm] ...

A tailsitter is a fixed-wing aircraft that takes off and lands vertically (it sits on its tail on the landing pad), and then tilts horizontally for forward flight. Faster and more efficient than ...

Omen, a new hover-to-cruise autonomous aircraft developed by Anduril and EDGE, is advancing toward full-rate production after the UAE confirmed an initial order of 50 systems. The aircraft sits at the ...

The Lockheed XFV was designed as a vertical takeoff fighter for a world shaped by fears of surprise attacks, destroyed airfields, and vulnerable naval convoys. It promised a combat aircraft that could ...

It is set to be the predator that can land anywhere. Northrop Grumman has revealed a flying-wing tailsitter drone it says does not need a runway. Instead, it simply lands on its tail - a design first ...

Northrop Grumman revealed a flying-wing tailsitter design as the company’s offering for an experimental unmanned air system that can bring Predator-sized payload and endurance to naval ships smaller ...

A spin-off from Embry-Riddle, Eagle Flight Research Center (EFRC), Heurobotics has created a tail-sitting VTOL. Full marks in the cool factor department. It’s big and only has a 20-minute endurance.

New algorithms for trajectory planning and control of fixed-wing 'tailsitter' aircraft are faster and more efficient than traditional quadcopter drones. The algorithms can execute challenging ...