The Airvinci personal ducted fan helicopter and drones could enable the flying car future. The unmanned heavy cargo drone version looks like a good way to commercially ramp up to true personal flight.

In the 1960s, France developed the Nord 500—a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft powered by twin ducted fans that promised speed, agility, and versatility decades ahead of its time. With ...

The dual-ducted fan configuration used on the Mule is derived from failed "flying jeep" experiments of the 1950s. Those early models were doomed by aerodynamic problems, excessive weight and ...

But it’s unclear whether the ducted-fan saucer ever would perform better than a conventional helicopter or airplane. As far back as 1956, the U.S. Army and NASA experimented with a plane with ...

The ducted fan is meant to be a stand-in for a model jet engine, ... Ducted Fan, EDF, helicopter, LibrePilot, monocopter, rotor, thrust, uav, unmanned aerial vehicle, vector.

As a contender in the Army’s Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator program, AVX Aircraft Company is developing a futuristic machine kitted out with coaxial rotors, ducted fans and a ...

Helicopter? Close, but not quite, since the rotor blades are fixed-pitch. We’ll just go with “monocopter” for now and sort out the details later for this ducted-fan, thrust-vectored UAV .

If a helicopter rescue basket starts rapidly spinning, or can't get through trees, the results can be frightening or even deadly. ... and instructions zip to the ducted fans to stabilize it.

The X-Hawk uses a ducted fan design that allows it to have the same manueverability of a helicopter without exposed blades that prevent choppers from hovering near buildings and the like.

The CyberQuad unmanned aerial vehicle from Cyber Technology is a remote-control reconnaissance platform with four ducted rotors for stable, stealthy flight in urban environments.

MANASSAS, VA--(Marketwired - Jun 10, 2013) - Aurora Flight Sciences along with partners ThinGap and Trust Automation are answering the need for safe, high power density electric lift fans, with ...