It's not every day you see a helicopter that looks like this. But that unconventional rotor placement will help drive the S-97's exceptional speed. Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, ...

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, ...

The SB>1 Defiant has not one but two rotors on top, and in the rear, a pusher propeller designed to give it high-speed flight. Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since ...

There’s a lot to be said for determination. Two years ago, a contraption that looked a bit like a bouncy ball attached to a clothesline, took flight in a pioneering experiment in the German ...

Researchers at TU Delft have developed a new hybrid drone that takes off like a helicopter before tilting 90 degrees and then continuing to fly like an aircraft. The drone does this using mainly a ...

Cirrus® (Cirrus Aircraft Ltd.) today announced its 2026 SR Series G7+ aircraft for the SR20, SR22 and SR22T. The 2026 SR ...