It’s got the usual trappings of a drone, but with only a single rotor ... for now and sort out the details later for this ducted-fan, thrust-vectored UAV. Whatever we choose to call it ...

A while back, we wrote about the ducted fan, single rotor, VTOL drone that [Armin Strobel] was working on. It wasn’t quite finished then, and hadn’t got off the ground yet. He’s posted an ...

He observes that the growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles by the ... for the first vertical-takeoff, hover-capable aircraft with ducted fans. The 65-inch GoldenEye 50 is a winged design that ...

Its eight vertical electric motors—two each on the aircraft’s four wings—power four in-wing electric ducted fans, allowing it ... including everything from drones to unmanned aircraft ...

The V-BAT is the only single-engine ducted fan vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operationally deployed in multiple regions globally. With its unique ducted-fan ...

The company is preparing to reveal its next subscale model, dubbed "Sparrow," a 1:15 scale unmanned aircraft, to further test transitional flight dynamics with rotating ducted fans. This follows ...

In one of the latest breakthroughs of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aviation, Sikorsky has successfully completed a test flight with its Rotor Blown Wing prototype drone. The small ... Engineers ...