January 6, 2009 Conventional helicopters are incredibly useful vehicles in many short-range scenarios - but their asymmetrical aerodynamics enforce a fairly low terminal speed limit of around 150mph, ...

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US researchers are reviving the gyrodyne concept and designing the Heliplane, a rotorcraft that promises faster speeds than conventional helicopters Since the perfection of the helicopter, the ...

Could it be curtains soon for a small company that dreams of building a gyroplane, a rotorcraft whose rotor "is driven by aerodynamic forces in autorotation"? In a press release, Groen Brothers, which ...

Design of the Heliplane high-speed gyroplane is progressing, with developer Groen Brothers Aviation and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) completing a system requirements review ...

The Minot City Council is considering a loan to a Minneapolis company that may help lure 100 jobs in the next two years. Administrators of a fund that provides incentives to new and existing ...

Georgia Institute of Technology is to take over the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (Darpa) heliplane high-speed rotorcraft program from Groen Brothers Aviation (GBA). Georgia Tech ...

One of the best ways to extend the range of a VTOL aircraft is to add wings for horizontal flight, and Drone Volt's Heliplane brings this kind of thinking to the industrial drone market, offering long ...

Drone Volt, a French drone manufacturer and expert in embedded artificial intelligence, has announced the order of 2 new drones—one Heliplane and one Hercules 20—by the French Navy. This order ...