Flight tests of an unmanned air vehicle, which is neither a fixed- wing aircraft nor a rotorcraft, resume next week with the installation of a new, more-powerful engine. Unveiled by its US inventor at ...

The FanWing has to be weirdest aircraft ever devised: it doesn’t use rotors or jets for propulsion, but a patented “distributed-propulsion vortex-lift” technology which is similar to the blade ...

A one-year project to study the performance of a two-man ultralight version of the Fanwing aircraft could begin at London’s Imperial College in October. The Fanwing uses a bladed rotor turning on a ...