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

The aircraft is meant to develop and mature rotor blown wing design, which can now be applied to larger aircraft for unmanned aerial logistics and even tactical ISR missions. Sikorsky announced it ...

One of these companies, Sikorsky, decided to go the way of a rotor blown wing. Despite the name sounding a bit pretentious, it's really not. We're basically talking about a wing with motors and ...

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 ...

In one of the latest breakthroughs of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aviation, Sikorsky has successfully completed a ...

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 ...

Sikorsky says future applications for the technology include search and rescue, firefighting monitoring, humanitarian response, and pipeline surveillance. “Our rotor blown wing platform is a ...

Sikorsky Flies Rotor Blown Wing Sikorsky has completed the first series of flight tests with its Rotor Blown Wing prototype uncrewed aircraft, including full transitions between vertical hover and ...

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has successfully tested a rotor blown wing uncrewed aerial system (UAS) that can transition between helicopter and airplane flight modes, according to a press ...

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary, has successfully tested an electric-powered, 115-lb (52-kg) autonomous drone that utilizes a “rotor blown wing” (RBW) to transition between helicopter ...

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company has successfully validated the advanced control laws to successfully fly a rotor blown wing uncrewed aerial system (UAS) in both helicopter and airplane modes.