In the early 60s, there were several studies into creating the first mass-produced vtol aircraft. A plane that could operate ...

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 ...

DARPA has selected the next design of its VTOL X-Plane, a crazy UAV with 24 ducted fans, a 4,000-hp engine, and the ability to hit speeds up to 460 mph. This post is appearing on Autoblog Military ...

In the early 60s, there were several studies into creating the first mass-produced vtol aircraft ... had a promising lead with ducted fans. They had designed an aircraft called the D-190 sea ...