Its whirring motors burn about four times the amount of power as a plane-like drone with rigid wings. So-called ornithopters, which have flapping wings, offer the best of both worlds. The one seen ...

At the turn of this century, the US flew its first drones with wings as wide as 66 feet (20 m) and a cruising altitude of 50,000 feet (15,000 m), but it cost millions of dollars to build one.

An curved arrow pointing right. A drone that uses retractable feather wings, mimicking the natural flight of birds, has been designed by researchers in Switzerland. More from Tech A drone that ...

Sky News was given rare access to view a drone mission at a top-secret area in Ukraine. Long-range drone strikes targeting ...

Drones are pretty common in the electoronics ... for this mode of flight are also dramatically reduced thanks to those wings on the arms. There are a few downsides to this design, namely that ...

[PDF via NewAtlas] Inspired by some of the experiments with “ring wings” in the early 20th ... Experiments show the drones can get twice as close before becoming a nuisance for human ears ...

The wings are now protected by a propellor guard ... The DJI Flip starts at $439, which includes the drone, one battery, the RC-N3 controller, which requires a smartphone to act as a screen ...

The Ukrainian Defence Forces have started using a new type of drone interceptors designed to destroy Russian reconnaissance ...

Aerodyne Group (Aerodyne), a global leader in drone-based solutions, and Phoenix-Wings GmbH, a German drone manufacturer, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at XPONENTIAL Europe in Düsseldorf.