Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky demonstrates the flight capabilities of its rotor blown wing unmanned aircraft system. (Lockheed Martin) Through extensive flight tests earlier this year, Lockheed ...

Sikorsky demonstrates a rotor blown wing tail sitter drone can transition between helicopter and fixed wing flight modes. [Courtesy: Sikorsky] Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky has successfully flown ...

ABOVE: Sikorsky’s VTOL prototype successfully demonstrated stability and manoeuvrability in both helicopter and aeroplane ...

The aircraft is meant to develop and mature rotor blown wing design, which can now be applied to larger aircraft for unmanned aerial logistics and even tactical ISR missions. Sikorsky announced it ...

One of these companies, Sikorsky, decided to go the way of a rotor blown wing. Despite the name sounding a bit pretentious, it's really not. We're basically talking about a wing with motors and ...

Sikorsky’s rotor blown wing UAS tech demonstrator is a 115-pound, twin prop-rotor prototype, which is designed to take off and land vertically like a helicopter and then can transition its ...

Sikorsky says that the rotor blown wing design – which looks quite similar to Boeing's Heliwing project from the mid 1990s – was selected because "the constant airflow from the proprotor wash ...

Sikorsky has successfully completed vertical-to-forward flight transitions of its autonomous rotor-blown-wing demonstrator, an all-electric aircraft the company is using to better understand the ...

Sikorsky has been flying its Rotor Blown Wing (RBW) vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) prototype over the past year and a half to evaluate the design and has briefed the U.S. Army on the aircraft ...

Through extensive flight tests earlier this year, Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky has proven the capability of a "rotor blown wing" unmanned aircraft system that can fly like a helicopter or an ...

Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky demonstrates the flight capabilities of its rotor blown wing unmanned aircraft system at its facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Lockheed Martin) ...