VTOL

This Absurd Tilt-Wing Whirly Bird Actually Flew

While it may have looked like someone slapped wings on a VH-71 Kestrel and flew like an ungainly Osprey, this experimental plane helped to pave the way for today’s tilt wing aircraft. https://gizmodo.com/the-13-billion-presidential-helicopters-we-scrapped-an-978480541 The Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) XC-142 experimental aircraft was originally developed as both a replacement to the US military’s aging fleet of Sikorsky HR2S…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 18

This Vertical Take-Off Drone System Is So Versatile It’s Scary

Drones are getting pretty advanced, and they’re continuing to prove their usefulness. They can do anything from dodge bullets to land on aircraft carriers. And up next is an emerging new class of drones that can take off and land vertically, thanks to the likes of the new Arcturus UAV Jump system. The Jump system…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes Apr 21

This Is How DARPA’s Robotic VTOL X-Planes Will Dominate The Sky

The Pentagon’s advanced concepts research wing has asked four companies to make “radical improvements” to vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Revealingly, the initial proposals for these VTOL X-Planes consist entirely of robots. Above: Artist’s concept of Karem Aircraft’s proposed VTOL X-Plane. Frustratingly for DARPA, new designs for VTOL aircraft over the past few generations have…

io9 George Dvorsky Mar 20

This Flying Ambulance May Save Wounded Soldiers from Certain Death

Removing wounded soldiers from the battlefield has always been a dangerous proposition, not just for the wounded but for the Medevac team as well. So instead of sending more soldiers into harm’s way, one Israeli aeronautic company wants to whisk the wounded away aboard a UAV. The AirMule, as its called by its creator, Dr.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Dec 24

This F-35B’s Vertical Night Landing Makes It Look Like a Badass UFO

On August 14th, the amazing, hovering F-35B made its first, vertical, at-sea night landing on the USS WASP. We’ve seen it hover before, and even do a vertical take off, but man, nothing quite compares to the sheer night-vision, sci-fi awesomeness of this clip. https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-supersonic-jet-hover-with-breathtaking-stillnes-5496766 This successful test is just one of many stepping stones…

Tech News Eric Limer Aug 19

First Footage of an F-35B Taking Off Straight Into the Air

Finding a suitable runway to launch your multibillion dollar fighter jet from isn’t always as easy as it sounds. That’s why the F-35B Lightning II is designed to with the ability to both take off and land without ever needing to taxi. Here’s the first look at its vertical launch. Earlier this month at the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola May 20

June 2, 1954: Airplane Takes Off, Lands Vertically

1954: A Convair XFY-1 Pogo aircraft makes a vertical takeoff and landing. It’s a milestone in the checkered history of VTOL aircraft. Using designs captured from the Germans, the Navy and the newly formed Air Force crafted two design studies in 1947 for creating a fixed-wing vertical-takeoff-and-landing, or VTOL, aircraft. The goal of the project…

Tech News Wired.com Jun 2

NASA’s Puffin Is a Stealthy, Personal Tilt-Rotor Aircraft

What’s cooler than a hover-capable, electric-powered, super-quiet personal VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft? If you answered “absolutely nothing,” do read on, because NASA is preparing to oblige you. The space agency’s Puffin aircraft design will be officially unveiled tomorrow, showing just how far personal, electrically propelled flight could change the ways we live and…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Jan 20

The Draganflyer X6 UAV Police Edition

The Draganflyer X6 has been around for a bit now, but only recently have Canadian law enforcers begun using it to serve and protect. Here’s the first look at these flying UAVs in uniform. https://gizmodo.com/at-gizmodo-gallery-draganflyer-x6-uav-5099394 The X6 is a spy drone with wireless video and still cameras (in hi-def, infra-red and 0 lux flavors) that…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 10

Vintage Flying Car Lands on eBay’s Auction Table

Are you an ultra-rich tech enthusiast with a hankering to own a piece of aero-automobile history? Moller International is now offering its M200X, the first flying car of its kind, up for sale on that veritable auction house of luxury, eBay. The M200X is a 2-passenger Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle that has completed…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 3

Weird FanWing Airplane Looks Like Flying Harvester

The FanWing has to be weirdest aircraft ever devised: it doesn’t use rotors or jets for propulsion, but a patented “distributed-propulsion vortex-lift” technology which is similar to the blade cylinders used in harvesting machines. In fact, that’s exactly what it looks like, a flying harvester. This prototype was presented at the recent Farnborough International Air…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 24

This Absurd Tilt-Wing Whirly Bird Actually Flew

This Vertical Take-Off Drone System Is So Versatile It’s Scary

This Is How DARPA’s Robotic VTOL X-Planes Will Dominate The Sky

This Flying Ambulance May Save Wounded Soldiers from Certain Death

This F-35B’s Vertical Night Landing Makes It Look Like a Badass UFO

First Footage of an F-35B Taking Off Straight Into the Air

June 2, 1954: Airplane Takes Off, Lands Vertically

NASA’s Puffin Is a Stealthy, Personal Tilt-Rotor Aircraft

The Draganflyer X6 UAV Police Edition

Vintage Flying Car Lands on eBay’s Auction Table

Weird FanWing Airplane Looks Like Flying Harvester

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