Astro Aerospace, the company creating autonomous, eVTOL (Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aerial vehicles has announced the success of their recent flight testing just North of Toronto, in Markham Ontario, Canada. Continue reading
Category Archives: VTOL
Bell Demonstrates Distributed Propulsion Aircraft
Bell Helicopter demonstrated its unmanned Hybrid Drive Train Research Aircraft (HYDRA) at the first Tech Demo edition of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Center of Excellence in Alma, Quebec, last week. Continue reading
Bell Unveils V-247 Vigilant Tilt-Rotor Combat Drone
As the U.S. Marine Corps looks to move ahead with its multi-role, vertical landing and takeoff-capable drone program, known as MUX, Bell has unveiled a new, full-scale mock-up of its V-247 Vigilant unmanned tilt-rotor at a technology exposition at one of the service’s own bases. The company has been actively pitching the design as an option for MUX project, but it has a modular design that could make it appealing to other U.S. and foreign military services, as well. Continue reading
Airobotics Opens North American HQ in Arizona
Airobotics, an Israeli automated drone company,announced that it will open its North American headquarters at 8340 E. Raintree Drive in Scottsdale. The company, which also has offices in Australia, Chile and New Caledonia, plans to create 80 jobs in Scottsdale by the end of 2019. Continue reading
Blowfish VTOL UAV Enters Service with China People’s Liberation Army Navy
Officials from Chinese company Ziyan revealed at the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) 2018 exhibition in South Africa on 19–23 September that the Blowfish I vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has entered service with the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). Continue reading
Schiebel Camcopter S-100 Flight Display at Red Bull Air Race
Schiebel’s market-leading CAMCOPTER S-100 Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) entertained an international audience with a flight display at the prestigious Red Bull Air Race in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Continue reading
Fire Scout Completes Sea Mine-Hunting Demonstration
A modified version of Northrop Grumman’s MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter has successfully completed an automated sea mine-hunting demonstration. Continue reading
Bell Team Selected for NASA UAS Demo in 2020
Bell’s Autonomous Pod Transport 70 utilizes a tail-sitting electric vertical take-off and landing configuration that is capable of rotation and translation in flight
Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, has announced a cooperative agreement with NASA for an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) flight demonstration in the National Airspace System (NAS) expected to be conducted in 2020.