Credit: CycloTech Austria's CycloTech has completed two years of ground and flight testing of its BlackBird technology demonstrator, validating the capabilities of its CycloRotor propulsion system in ...

After working for more than a decade on hover-capable drones no bigger than the palm of a hand, Dr. Moble Benedict and a team of researchers are studying the feasibility of scaling these concepts to ...

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The aircraft lifted only briefly off the ground, hovering under remote control. Still, the moment mattered. On March 27, 2025, an experimental vehicle called BlackBird rose into the air during its ...

When it comes to VTOLs (vertical take-off and landing), such as helicopters and other aircraft, the most common approach used to lift these vehicles is to use rotors that rotate on a vertical axis. In ...

Austrian startup CycloTech has begun tethered flight tests of a demonstrator equipped with its cycloidal rotor technology for vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft. Flown indoors initially, the ...