Another benefit of such a design is that the rotors can tilt downwards to optimize airflow and thrust for fast and powerful acceleration, within miliseconds of the drone being engaged. A Reverse ...

The entire rotor-blown wing turned real back in January when Sikorsky completed a series of tests on a prototype of the drone, one that was put together in under a year. We're not given all the ...

The drone is a 115-pound, battery-powered twin prop-rotor aircraft that the company said can be scaled larger, “requiring hybrid-electric propulsion.” The company designed the vertical take ...

tank. Rotor CEO Hector Xu says the autonomous choppers can cover 240 acres per hour - a vast leap forward over many of the spray drone technologies on the market today. Comparison data on the ...

Manufacturer Rotor Technologies this week flew its R550 Sprayhawk—which it calls the largest spray drone in the world—at Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport (KAFW) during the National ...

Drone insurance gives both recreational and commercial users peace of mind, knowing that they are protected in the event of an accident or legal dispute. [Credit: golubovy] If you fly drones ...

A New Hampshire company is recycling old helicopters into the world’s largest drones, hoping to create a new class of unmanned aerial vehicles. Rotor Technologies is adopting the Transformer ...

Multirotor drones may get all the glory ... former's wings provide a much larger lift surface than the latter's smaller rotors. Multirotors still have one big advantage, though, in that they ...

On the top floor of a building somewhere in Ukraine is a drone workshop. Inside is a chaotic workbench covered in logic boards, antennas, batteries, augmented reality headsets, and rotor blades.

Maryland-based manufacturer of multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles, in a transaction aimed at expanding the former’s technology offerings to include tethered and untethered drone systems.

Chinese scientists say they have developed a new type of war drone unlike any ever seen on the battlefield. At first glance, it resembles a consumer-grade Chinese DJI multirotor. However ...