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Piasecki Aircraft’s Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) tilt-duct VTOL aircraft has completed its maiden flight. On September 6 at Piasecki’s West Helipad in Essington, Pennsylvania the autonomous rotorcraft made two tethered hover flights.Con… Continue reading Watch: Modular tilt-rotor aircraft makes maiden flight
Piasecki Aircraft’s Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) tilt-duct VTOL aircraft has completed its maiden flight. On September 6 at Piasecki’s West Helipad in Essington, Pennsylvania the autonomous rotorcraft made two tethered hover flights.Con… Continue reading Watch: Modular tilt-rotor aircraft makes maiden flight
Vertical Aerospace has pulled back the hanger doors on the second full-scale prototype of its four-passenger VX4 tilt-rotor eVTOL aircraft. The latest flavor has been given a significant power boost, and features proprietary batteries for the first tim… Continue reading VX4 tilt-rotor eVTOL gets 20% power boost ahead of flight tests
Bell has been selected as one of two companies for Phase 1B of DARPA’s Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane program to create a prototype High-Speed Vertical Takeoff and Landing (HSVTOL) aircraft for the US military.Continue Readi… Continue reading Bell’s High-Speed Vertical Takeoff and Landing X-plane takes next step
Sikorsky is developing a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (HEX/VTOL) tilt-wing demonstrator, one of a new family of hybrid rotorcraft that will also offer pilot-optional autonomous flight.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: S… Continue reading Sikorsky’s new tilt-wing hybrid VTOL aircraft promises 575-mile range
Bell has released a video showing off its High-Speed Vertical Takeoff and Landing (HSVTOL) technology in action. The two-minute video shows a ground test of the nacelle system used to lift and land a VTOL X-plane before converting to jet flight.Continu… Continue reading Bell ground tests high-speed tiltrotor technology for SPRINT X-plane
Bell has released a video showing off its High-Speed Vertical Takeoff and Landing (HSVTOL) technology in action. The two-minute video shows a ground test of the nacelle system used to lift and land a VTOL X-plane before converting to jet flight.Continu… Continue reading Bell ground tests high-speed tiltrotor technology for SPRINT X-plane
After years of testing and deliberation, the US Army has made the US$1.3-billion decision to select the Bell V-280 Valor tilt-rotor craft to replace the Army’s 2,000 UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters and 1,200 AH-64 Apache assault helicopters.Contin… Continue reading US Army selects V-280 Valor as replacement for Black Hawk and Apache
The V-22 Osprey is an aircraft like no other. The tiltrotor multirole military aircraft makes an impression wherever it goes; coincidentally, a flight of two of these beasts flew directly …read more Continue reading [Tom Stanton] Builds an Osprey
After several years out of the public eye, Leonardo’s AW609 tiltrotor aircraft re-emerged as the centerpiece of the aerospace and defense company’s display at the 2021 Dubai Airshow this month. The appearance comes on the back of reports the aircraft c… Continue reading Leonardo AW609 tiltrotor surfaces in Dubai as certification looms