We see a lot of quadcopters, and even the occasional octocopter around here. But this build does it with just two propellers. It’s a tiltrotor build which allows the two upward-pointing propellers to ...

China’s 6-tonne autonomous tilt-rotor aircraft is one of the largest unmanned aircraft developed for low-altitude transport ...

The new Cheyenne’s wing structures require only a fraction of the labor hours required for the earlier V-22 Osprey, according ...

Autonomous Systems researchers at ETH Zurich have demonstrated another drone capable of flying and hovering in any orientation, this time with higher efficiency. It's extraordinary to watch its 12 ...

In the years after the Korean War, the U.S. military pursued an aircraft capable of taking off like a helicopter while flying ...

Bell Helicopter revved the engines and turned the rotors this week in the first ground test of its experimental V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft, which is vying for contracts in the Army's "Future ...

April 28, 2008 Tilt-rotor aircraft have been around since the 1950s, offering the vertical take-off, hovering and landing abilities of a helicopter with the range, high flight ceiling, speed and fuel ...

Tiltrotor technology has limited civilian use, but the military has long used similar aircraft. Downtown-to-downtown service is one of the potential uses for the aircraft type. Vertical flight has ...

The modern world offers many ways for civilians to travel in the sky. One can board an airplane or a helicopter, can climb inside the nacelle of a hot-air balloon, or can even dangle precariously ...

Someday, we may be able to commute to our jobs in aircraft that can take off and land like a helicopter, but fly like a plane. Developing these advanced tiltrotors is no simple task, so NASA is ...

European helicopter maker AgustaWestland has unveiled the world's first electric tilt-rotor aircraft and says it has already made several flights. Like the more famous Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, the new ...