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.

Drones are common enough that it’s easy to picture their basic design variations. Fixed-wing drones look like miniature airplanes.Others use propellers—typically four of them—to pull ...

We got our first look at Parrot's new plane-like drone, the Disco, at CES earlier this year.Tuesday, the company showed off the fixed-wing drone again, unveiling pricing ($1,300) and a release ...

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 ...

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 ...