Third in a series of articles on how the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, formerly the Research, Development and Engineering Command and now part of Army Futures Command, is ...

WASHINGTON -- Future Vertical Lift, or FVL, projects are primed to expand on recent progress this fiscal year as the Army searches to replace its aging fleets of helicopters. In less than six months, ...

Northrop Grumman recently demonstrated its Mini-Communications, Navigation, and Identification (CNI) system with open architecture and in-flight connectivity (IFC) capabilities for vertical lift ...

The biggest problem with electric VTOL aircraft is the VTOL system. It's a pain. The world-changing convenience of vertical lift systems comes with a high price tag: they weigh a heap, particularly ...

The U.S. Army has outlined its vision of a mission system architecture for its Future Vertical Lift platforms that will allow upgrades to be fielded rapidly to counter emerging threats and overcome ...

CW2 William Bogert, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, examines the cockpit of the Bell Joint Multi-Role Technology aircraft. Soldiers visited businesses to provide feedback to help inform future ...

So what you've got is a vertical lift system with two enormous rotors instead of four or more much smaller ones, in a very compact ground footprint. If the air can move smoothly through the slats in ...

Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. (ESAero), a leading Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) System design, development and manufacturing services provider announced today a Small ...

"DARPA call on industry to design a powerful heavy-lift drone" was originally created and published by Naval Technology, a ...