W hat if an aircraft could lift off like a helicopter, fly like a plane, and still be compact enough to land on a building’s roof — all in one trip? Canada-based Horizon Aircraft has created ...

One such attempt was a military aircraft, the AH-56 Cheyenne, a helicopter with a weirdly elongated appearance dating to the late 1960s that also had wings as well as a propeller (and a tail rotor ...

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I guess we’re on a UAV kick – I ran across this one when I was looking for interesting propeller projects. [Glenn]’s building this one based on a R/C helicopter he picked up. Both… ...

There are helicopter drones and fixed-wing drones, but creating a hybrid of both is tricky. Even Parrot's Swing, as clever as it is, needs four propellers and elaborate wings to pull off its stunt.