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 through a ...

An early U.S. Navy and Marine Corps carrier-based fighter aircraft, the F9F was a straight-wing jet, and was used in the Korean War. It was Grumman's first jet fighter and also the Navy's first ...

Aerospace giant Sikorsky announced it has conducted a series of flight tests for the rotor blown wing drone being developed ...

Aspect ratios across different aircraft types ... for close air support of ground troops, it features straight, low-aspect-ratio wings for enhanced durability and loitering capability in combat ...

Lightweight. Simple. Fast. The F-104 Starfighter was designed, in a time of increasing aircraft complexity and size, to be a straightforward, single-engine rocket ship, capable of intercepting and ...

It’s primarily intended for straight wings with a continuous profile, but it should be adaptable to tapered/swept wings too. A well-designed airframe is essential when pushing aircraft to the ...

Blended wing aircraft are basically flying wings, where the cargo-carrying section of aircraft is shorter, wider, and produces lift. This layout can be used to increase the aircraft’s internal ...

The Rotor Blown Wing is a hybrid-electric, fully autonomous flying wing aircraft. Credit: Sikorsky Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky business unit continues to invest in incremental improvements to its ...