Thomas Senkel of the German company e-volo recently became the first to pilot an interesting craft – a so-called electric multicopter with 16 rotors. With a single seat placed in the center of those ...

The perennially-futuristic dream of a flying car may be edging closer to the present day—sort of. German company e-volo’s drone-inspired flying machine, the two-seat Volocopter VC200, recently became ...

It's a remote-controlled machine which drives like a normal truck - but takes off and lands like a helicopter. Now the Black Knight Transformer, a 'multicopter' designed for the U.S. military, has ...

EL SEGUNDO, California, 10 April 2014 – Advanced Tactics Inc. announced that it has successfully completed the first flight test of the Black Knight Transformer, a modular and roadable vertical ...

Although underwater drones are capable of performing a variety of tasks, getting them to the "dive site" can still sometimes be challenging. A new system is designed to help, by using an aerial drone ...

Last week, Russia’s Ministry of Defense released a 44-second video of the prototype of a new multi-copter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fitted with cameras and a shoulder-launched rocket system. The ...

German firm e-volo has developed a personal flight vehicle that has been endorsed by Nasa e-volo The race to build viable personal flight vehicles like those in Star Wars Episode I is reaching new ...

It might look like as space hopper surrounded by model helicopters, but the 16-rotor E-Volo is an entirely new kind of helicopter - which can hover motionless in the air without input from the pilot ...

A multicopter armed with the Smash Dragon system. (Smart Shooter) Israeli company Smart Shooter unveiled on 10 January its Smash Dragon system, which enables small multicopter unmanned aerial vehicles ...

BELFAST-based Spirit AeroSystems has signed off an a potentially lucrative deal to supply the wings for an innovative new aerial vehicle designed for city travel. Spirit AeroSystems, formerly known as ...