IPLC focuses on the latest developments in vertical and/or short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) aircraft research, concepts and programs. IPLC, which was first held in the 1990s, is a joint technical ...

The RAeS General Aviation Design Competition is one of the Society’s flagship international competitions. It is an opportunity to design a GA aircraft to a realistic specification, leading to a ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has unveiled a new experimental jet convertiplane, the X-76. It is designed to combine the speed of a jet aircraft with the ability to take off ...

In the years following the Korean War, the US military sought an aircraft that could combine the vertical lift of a helicopter with the speed of a fixed-wing airplane. Bell answered with the XV-3 ...

Both military and civilian aircraft users have long demanded a helicopter-airplane hybrid: a “convertiplane” that can take off vertically like a helicopter and fly as fast and as economically as an ...

The prototype of China’s first unmanned 6-ton Lanying R6000 convertiplane has taken to the skies for the first time. This was reported by China Science. The new aircraft will be able to carry up to 12 ...

The helicopter used to be the airplane’s eccentric poor relation. It could do a few odd jobs (sea rescues, short-range shuttling), but its high cost and its lack of range and speed weighed heavily ...

The Bell XV3 or Bell 200 was an American tilt-rotor aircraft that Bell Helicopter produced to fulfill a request in the aftermath of the Korean War to develop convertiplanes for use in future military ...

One of the challenges in the development of new aircraft is to have increasingly faster vertical takeoff and landing aerial systems. Projects to build this type of aircraft began as early as the 1960s ...

After several years of work, Sikorsky, owned by Lockheed Martin, has finally developed and proven the operability of a new type of aircraft, the Rotor Blown Wing. Its main feature is the ability to ...