There are a variety of possible motor configurations to choose from when building a fixed-wing VTOL drone, but few take the twin-motor tilt-rotor approach used by the V-22 Osprey. However, it remai… ...

Generally speaking though, once a drone was built a certain way (like say as a fixed-wing aircraft or a VTOL), you can't easily change the way the machine departs for a mission or comes back from it.

KapetAir VTOL’s another unique feature is its ability to take-off and land from water. For the last couple of months, KapetAir has been conducting test flights of their tiltrotor VTOL UAV. Prototyping ...

What is important, the module is used without the loss of data quality: for both BIRDIE fixed-wing and VTOL you can achieve the accuracy up to 3 cm and the resolution up to 1 cm/px. The module gives a ...

Each fairing is fitted with fore and aft electric lift engines driving two-bladed propellers. A fixed-wing AR3 can be converted to VTOL configuration in hot-swappable mode in power-on conditions.

Terrafugia Inc. today announces the launch of a new brand, CommarisTM, and the brand’s first product, the SEEKERTM, an innovative, electric, fixed-win ...

The Kestrel drone comes with both VTOL and fixed-wing modes and can fly a total distance of 100km (63 miles) with a top speed of 64 km/hr (40 miles/hr). Its nose and tail sections can separate for ...