The Lockheed XFV was designed as a vertical takeoff fighter for a world shaped by fears of surprise attacks, destroyed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Boeing is studying a tailsitting vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) design as one of several potential configurations for the U.S. Marine Corps’ emerging MUX requirement for a long-range, ...

Anduril is drawing on Archer Aviation technology to help power the Omen UAS it plans to build with Edge Group. Credit: Anduril UAE-based Edge Group and Anduril aim to produce a roughly 1,000-lb.

Dave Vos flew radio-controlled aircraft in his native South Africa as a teenager until the hobby began to bore him. “I started dreaming of, ‘why don’t we make this completely automatic’?” Vos recalled ...