The X-series of planes was a series of experimental research aircraft developed mostly by NASA and the U.S. Air Force to explore flight characteristics of new airframe designs. In the late 1940s and ...

After previously teasing an under-development hybrid-electric demonstrator but revealing only sparse programme details, Sikorsky has shared its vision for a tiltwing vertical take-off and landing ...

HEX has twin rotors mounted on a tiltwing with a conventional T-tail and tricycle landing gear. Credit: Sikorsky ANAHEIM, California—Sikorsky has unveiled the configuration of the Hybrid-Electric ...

Swiss advanced air mobility developer Dufour Aerospace has completed the first hover flight of the production-conforming version of its Aero2 tiltwing uncrewed air vehicle (UAV). Announcing the ...

NASA is helping accelerate the future of advanced air mobility (AAM) by testing a unique model wing that could shape the next generation of air taxis and cargo drones. At the heart of this effort is a ...

The tiltwing is an aircraft configuration waiting for its time to come. Despite successful prototype flights in the 1960s, no tiltwing design has entered production. But the emergence of electric ...

Swiss company has completed an initial round of test flights with the hybrid-electric tiltwing Dufour Aerospace has completed the first phase of test flights with its Aero2 hybrid-electric VTOL ...

Vertical Aerospace this week teased eVTOL watchers with a short animation of what appears to be a new tiltwing eVTOL with four propellors. Vertical Aerospace has briefly revealed a glancing view of ...