During the 1970s and 1980s, NASA and the U.S. Navy pursued one of the most ambitious aviation projects ever conceived. The ...

The pursuit of personal flight took a promising, and kind of wacky, step forward today with the electric 18-rotor Volocopter lifting somebody into the air for the very first time. The maiden manned ...

Part of the charm of quadcopters is the challenge that building and flying them presents. In need of complex sensors and computational power to just get off the ground and under tremendous stresses ...

E-volo recently celebrated the maiden launch of its electric two-passenger, 18-rotor VC200 "Volocopter," touting the vehicle's safety and simplicity after an indoor flight inside the dm-arena in ...

Rotor Technologies is working through regulatory approval of a remotely piloted helicopter based on Robinson Helicopter’s R44, with hopes of tapping into the aerial crop-dusting market. Unmanned ...

The helicopter is equipped with a large rotor blade at the top of the fuselage, but when installing four rotor blades on the fuselage, "Quad rotor"(Quadrotor, quadrocopter) will be what is called.

ORLANDO, FL / ACCESSWIRE / August 23, 2024 / Unusual Machines, Inc. (NYSE American:UMAC) ("Unusual Machines" or the "Company"), a supplier to the American drone industry, reports over 6,700 Rotor Riot ...

Helicopters are great, but you know what they need? More rotors. At most, helicopters generally have two main rotors, with a smaller tail rotor for stability. But a bunch of Germans decided just three ...

Snecma is building a prototype open-rotor engine which is to be flight-tested on an Airbus A340 in 2019. The experimental powerplant with two unducted, contra-rotating fans will utilise the core of ...

Supersonic milestone: NASA’s new Mars helicopter rotors reached Mach 1.08 in testing, breaking the sound barrier for the first time in simulated Martian conditions. Why it matters: The 30% lift boost ...