In 2018, Rolls-Royce was contracted to work with Aurora to develop a different (and bizarre-looking) VTOL DARPA X-Plane called the Aurora XV-24 LighntingStrike. A scaled-down demonstrator was ...

The dawn of a new era in aviation is on the horizon, and vertical take off and landing (VTOL) machines are poised to revolutionize both civilian and military flight. The Defense Advanced Research ...

In 2018, Rolls-Royce was contracted to work with Aurora to develop a different (and bizarre-looking) VTOL DARPA X-Plane called the Aurora XV-24 LighntingStrike. A scaled-down demonstrator was built ...

Credit: Sikorsky Sikorsky has been awarded a $6 million DARPA contract to install its Matrix autonomy system in a U.S. Army UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter used as a fly-by-wire testbed. The upgrade ...

The project is one of three being developed under a $67.6 million program launched by the US government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa. Cheekily called Reefense ...

Sikorsky has been given a US$6 million award by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to install the ALIAS/MATRIX flight autonomy system onto the US Army’s experimental UH-60 Black ...

Sikorsky, has secured a $6 million contract from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to outfit the U.S. Army’s experimental fly-by-wire UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter with its ...

No drivers with mohawks and shoulder pads, unfortunately. No drivers at all. This was the DARPA Grand Challenge — the world’s first robot car race. It was March 13th, 2004, a watershed ...

Metro Aviation, which operates air ambulance services across the U.S. using a fleet of more than 150 modified helicopters, plans to add electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft to its ...

The design work is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program. The SPRINT program aims to design, build and fly an X-plane ...

The Founders and Leaders of BluJ Aero, Maruthi Amardeep Sri Vatsavaya and Uttam Kumar Dharamapuri at aircraft in a live flight demonstration prototype cargo VTOL (Vertical Take-off and Landing ...