XTI Aerospace, a U.S.-based company specializing in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft technology, has achieved a major engineering milestone. The company has successfully updated the ...

For a long time fixed wing VTOL drones were tricky to work with ... This looks like a fun craft even if you don’t plan on doing research with it, and [Stephen] also created an FPV specific ...

The goal is not a production aircraft or a VTOL craft suited to a specific mission, according to Ashish Bagai, DARPA’s manager for the VTOL X-Plane. Instead, Bagai told the American Helicopter ...

His Ducted Fan VTOL UAV uses just such recent technologies. Ducted fan designs can use either swivelling tilt rotors that allow the craft to transition from vertical flight to horizontal ...