December 6, 2005 Boeing’s second canard rotor/wing (CRW) X-50A Dragonfly unmanned air vehicle (UAV) has successfully completed a four-minute hover flight at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground ...

An analysis is made of the interrelationship of the longitudinal parameters important to the aerodynamic design of an efficient canard or tandem wing configuration. It is shown that theoretical ...

This paper describes a series of ongoing experiments to capture the details of perpendicular vortex-airfoil interaction. Three test cases explored are: 1) a 21% thick symmetric airfoil at 1.1° angle ...

Switzerland's Manta Aircraft is working on a flexible hybrid-electric canard aircraft design that will be capable of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) or efficient short take-off and landing (STOL) ...

Boeing has begun flight testing its X-50A Dragonfly Canard Rotor Wing (CRW) concept demonstrator, completing the long-awaited first hover at the US Army Proving Ground in Yuma, Arizona last week.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Boeing have lost the first of two Canard Rotor Wing prototypes to a flight accident. During the third hover mission, the rotorcraft crashed for ...

CHICAGO (Boeing) - The Boeing Company's second canard rotor/wing (CRW) technology demonstrator - the X-50A Dragonfly unmanned air vehicle - has successfully completed a four-minute hover flight at the ...