STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State engineering study could shape the future of tilt-wing plane design thanks to a $600,000 U.S. Department of Defense grant and a one-of-a-kind wind tunnel. Shreyas ...

The core advantage of a tilt‑wing in hover is that the entire wing sits inside a powerful, uniform propeller slipstream. That slipstream acts like a wind‑tunnel moving with the aircraft, smoothing out ...

In the 1960s, the US military pursued an ambitious idea that seemed closer to science fiction than aviation: a large cargo aircraft that could take off and land vertically like a helicopter while ...

Aero2 was known in the past couple of years as the most famous drone coming from Switzerland, due to its innovative tilt-wing design, autonomous operations, and hybrid-electric propulsion. Its recent ...

The Aero2, a tilt-wing drone developed by Dufour Aerospace (Zurich, Switzerland), has completed its first successful hover flight. The aircraft platform version — called the “X2.3” — is one of many ...

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (AUGUST 26, 2024) — The Aero2 is Dufour Aerospace’s cutting-edge tilt-wing drone. Over the past years, several prototypes have been put through their paces — and demonstrated the ...

Urban air mobility has long faced a technical hurdle: combining vertical takeoff with efficient forward flight in a single, ...

These are an ongoing series of extraordinary aircraft existing at the extreme cutting edge of technology. The “X-planes” are radical, often bizarre, machines that push the boundaries of what is ...

HopFlyt has built and flown two 10-ft. wingspan prototypes. Credit: HopFlyt Developed in the 1940s by American inventor William Ray Custer, the channel wing aircraft features a main wing with a ...