Wing and Walmart are completing thousands of weekly deliveries, with an average fulfillment time under 19 minutes. “This is real drone delivery at scale,” Woodworth said. “People all around the Dallas ...

The US Air Force has been operating large, armed, fixed-wing drones since the early 2000s: propeller-driven Predators and Reapers and, soon, jet-propelled Collaborative Combat Aircraft “loyal ...

Generally speaking though, once a drone was built a certain way (like say as a fixed-wing aircraft or a VTOL), you can't easily change the way the machine departs for a mission or comes back from it.

The Swiss research team at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne found that by adding bird-like legs to a fixed-wing puller-propeller drone, their machine, aptly deemed Raven (Robotic ...

IRAN has unveiled its biggest ever drone dubbed “The Gaza” that can carry a deadly 13-bomb load. The drone was revealed to the world by Iran’s military air force during a huge wea… ...

The Ohio Department of Transportation is about to deploy its first fixed-wing drone to monitor freeway traffic, inspect bridge and road conditions and warn of chemical hazards. The aircraft is ...

Maximum propulsion efficiency of the small tip mounted props spinning a large prop is going to be 66.7% so a direct drive to two counter rotating large props, tandem or off set, will be more ...

Ukraine attacked Moscow on Wednesday with at least 11 drones shot down by air defenses in what Russian officials said was one of the biggest drone strikes on the capital since the war in Ukraine ...

Sikorsky demonstrates a rotor blown wing tail sitter drone can transition between helicopter and fixed wing flight modes. [Courtesy: Sikorsky] Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky has successfully flown ...

Industry teams with counter-drone solutions took on large drone swarms in a Joint Counter-small unmanned aircraft systems Office-run demonstration in June. Navy Times Story by Jen Judson ...

The thing, 85 feet long (26 meters, the largest commercial air cargo drone ever made), will use a twin-engine setup to get airborne, spinning Hartzell propellers.