The aircraft lifted only briefly off the ground, hovering under remote control. Still, the moment mattered. On March 27, 2025, an experimental vehicle called BlackBird rose into the air during its ...
When it comes to VTOLs (vertical take-off and landing), such as helicopters and other aircraft, the most common approach used to lift these vehicles is to use rotors that rotate on a vertical axis. In ...
Austrian startup CycloTech has begun tethered flight tests of a demonstrator equipped with its cycloidal rotor technology for vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft. Flown indoors initially, the ...
The BlackBird has six CycloRotor propulsion units arranged to enable 360-deg. thrust vectoring. Credit: CycloTech Austria’s CycloTech has completed the first flight of its BlackBird cycloidal-rotor ...
KUBINKA /Moscow Region/, August 28. /TASS/. Russia’s Advanced Research Fund unveiled the flight demonstrator of the country’s first cyclocopter at the Army-2020 international military and technical ...
MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/. A vertical take-off and landing cyclocopter drone successfully passed trials in Russia, Advanced Research Foundation CEO Andrei Grigoryev told TASS on Thursday. "Recently, the ...