A while back, we wrote about the ducted fan, single rotor, VTOL drone that [Armin Strobel] was working on. It wasn’t quite finished then, and hadn’t got off the ground yet. He’s posted an ...

It has VTOL range of 600nm (700miles/1,100km ... allowing use of very short runways with front fans in intermediate positions. It is powered by two turboshaft engines that are 100% SAF compatible ...

Over the past few years a great deal of companies have tried their hand at creating vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft that could be used as part of air taxi services. A bunch of them ...

and all 5 doors for VTOL are actuated by a single servo in the nose via a series of linkages. For tilt control, air from the main fan is channeled to the wing-tips and controlled by servo-actuated ...

Sirius’ own Hydrogen-Electric Ducted Fan Propulsion System is due for commercialisation ... With a capacity of four (a pilot and three passengers), the Sirius Jet gets its VTOL capabilities from two ...