Tailsitter aircraft were designed to solve one of the Cold War’s biggest aviation fears by creating fighters that could take ...

Northrop Grumman will begin wind-tunnel tests in January of the tail-sitting vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) concept that is the finalist in Darpa’s Tern program to demonstrate a Predator-class ...

Sikorsky has advanced to the next phase of a DARPA project to develop an unmanned VTOL aircraft capable of flying all-weather missions from ships or land. The rotor blown wing VTOL tail-sitter is ...

Sikorsky has revealed the unmanned Rotor Blown Wing concept it is designing with Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works under Phase 1 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (Darpa) vertical-takeoff ...

Long range and endurance are capabilities not often associated with VTOL aircraft. But Aerovel’s unmanned Flexrotor, a unique miniature tailsitter, is cut from a different cloth. Last week a Flexrotor ...

The Convair XFY-1 Pogo was a Navy VTOL interceptor built to launch and land vertically from tiny ship decks. It used a cruciform wing and tail layout, a rotating pilot seat, and a powerful turboprop ...

Although fixed-wing drones can fly farther and faster than multicopters, they typically require runways to take off and land. The Vetal flying-wing drone addresses that compromise, with a rather ...

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.

WASHINGTON — The Convair XFY-1 Pogo of the 1950s is one of those famous aviation "funnies" – a weird, experimental aircraft intended to take off and land vertically. The "tailsitter" aircraft might ...

AeroVironment has launched a military version of its Quantix hybrid vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) called the Quantix Recon, the company announced on 23 ...

Tad McGeer, an unmanned aircraft pioneer who designed the Aerosonde and ScanEagle, has now unveiled a vertical take-off and landing, long-endurance aircraft in the same size class called Flexrotor.