The rotors are the meat and bones of the entire craft. In a main and tail rotor configuration, the main rotor spins to create thrust that outweighs the helicopter's overall weight.

Sikorsky plans to fly a Group 3 design of its Rotor Blown Wing next month as the company targets international interest in the concept.

By taking these principles and adding a similar mechanism to a quadcopter for extending a patagium-like membrane between its rotors, the researchers could develop a new controller (thrust-wing ...

Was it a jet? Was it a helicopter? The S-72 X-Wing was both—an experimental aircraft with rotors that doubled as fixed wings. This wild design blurred the line between flight tech and sci-fi ...

Sikorsky on Monday detailed recent successful demonstrations with its “rotor blown wing” unmanned aircraft system (UAS), flying its prototype in both helicopter and “winged aircraft” mode ...

We're basically talking about a wing with motors and propellers that can take off just like a helicopter, but once in the air it transitions to fly like a fixed-wing aircraft.

The Rotor Blown Wing UAS The Rotor Blown Wing drone has two engines, mounted near the tips of a ‘straight leading edge-tapered trailing edge’-type wing, turning three-bladed propellers.

The rotor blown wing design is one of a future family of systems in development by Sikorsky. The family will include winged VTOL UAS and single main rotor aircraft. Also in development by Sikorsky is ...

Sikorsky reported successful flight tests for its 115-pound, battery-powered twin prop-rotor unmanned aircraft.

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 ...