With a traditional airplane, a propellor or jet engine pulls it forward, and lift is created as air subsequently flows over the wings. FanWing aircraft are a little different. They have a powered ...
Flight tests of an unmanned air vehicle, which is neither a fixed- wing aircraft nor a rotorcraft, resume next week with the installation of a new, more-powerful engine. Unveiled by its US inventor at ...
A FanWing Ltd Fanwing unmanned air vehicle has demonstrated that it can rotate at 1m (3ft). The Fanwing aircraft uses a bladed rotor turning on a horizontal axis, which acts as a thick wing. This very ...