Distributed ducted propellers show immense potential for low-altitude aircraft, but the vast number of possible designs complicates standardized analysis. This research introduces a novel ...

Distributed ducted propellers show immense potential for low-altitude aircraft, but the vast number of possible designs complicates standardized analysis. This research introduces a novel ...

Want to learn why ducted propellers improve both thrust and efficiency? Well, we’ve got both the lesson and the teacher for you. [Bruce Simpson] isn’t exactly a household name, but we bet most ...

Piasecki Aircraft has developed a kit for compounding existing military helicopters with a Vectored Thrust Ducted Propeller—an eight-foot-diameter, tailboom-mounted, shrouded propeller ...

Most of the work so far on the electrification of aviation has involved propeller-driven aircraft and the development of electric propulsion units that can replace turboprop engines. Now GKN ...

The ducted-propeller aircraft is planned to fly unmanned in 2018 and manned in 2019 ...

Trek Aerospace’s FlyKart 2 personal aerial vehicle has 10 ducted propellers and is custom-designed to meet the GoFly challenge’s specifications. (Trek Aerospace Illustration) Five teams from ...

The Guardian, an “inclined thrust angle aircraft” (ITAAC-“eye tac”), designed to require no configuration change to transition between vertical and horizontal flight, features a ducted ...

The new remotely piloted aircraft is equipped with fixed wings, a V-shaped tail, and eight electrically powered ducted propellers as part of its distributed propulsion system.