UAVOS Inc, a Mountain View-based company specialised in unmanned solutions, has created a qualitatively new main rotor blade to be installed on helicopters with 77 lbs (35 kg) take-off mass and rotor diameter of 102,36″ (2600 mm). Continue reading
Category Archives: VTOL
Cormorant Achieves IDF Mission Demo Milestone
On May 7th, Tactical Robotics (a subsidiary of Urban Aeronautics Ltd), based in Yavne. Israel, successfully performed a first “mission representative” demonstration for its lead customer, the Israel Defence Forces. Continue reading
Autonomous Helicopter Technology Wins Major Award
The Howard Hughes Award — given by the American Helicopter Society — was presented here May 17 to the Office of Naval Research and Aurora Flight Sciences for their joint work on the Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System, or AACUS. Continue reading
Russian Corvettes to be Fitted with BPV-500 VTOL UAVs
Russian Project 22160 corvettes will be fitted with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for searching for submarines, and surveillance of surface vessels and shoreline. Also, UAVs will provide target designation to ship-based armament systems and, in the future, may be used for strike missions, the newspaper Izvestia reports. Continue reading
Textron Unveils Thrust-Vectoring X5-55 VTOL UAS
Textron Systems unveiled its X5-55 vertical take-off and landing engineering testbed at the AUVSI Xponential show in Denver, Colorado, on 1 May. Continue reading
AeroVironment & FlightWave Team for VTOL Tech
AeroVironment has teamed with FlightWave Aerospace Systems to produce Shrike 2, a new small UAS that can takeoff and land like a quadcopter but transition to forward flight as needed, using FlightWave’s patented Edge VTOL technology. Continue reading
Schiebel Integrates Maritime Surface Search Capability by Overwatch Imaging
Schiebel and Overwatch Imaging successfully integrated PT- 8 Oceanwatch, a revolutionary small target detection payload, on the CAMCOPTER S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS). Continue reading
Aeryon Announces Next Generation SkyRanger R80
Aeryon Labs Inc has unveiled the SkyRanger R80 – the newest addition to Aeryon’s family of SkyRanger Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Continue reading