Some people are never satisfied. You give them a plane, and they say it can’t hover. You give them a helicopter, and they say it can’t fly very high or fast. Looking to combine the advantages of both ...

Since the first modern helicopter took to the skies over 80 years ago, engineers have tried to incorporate the unique advantage of vertical take-off into aeroplanes. And a firm claims that they have ...

When we laid eyes on the Elytron 2S tiltrotor plane prototype last year at the Experimental Aircraft Association's fly-in airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, it was a half-built concept with only part of ...

Elytron Aerospace is designing box wing aircraft to provide the vertical take-off and landing capability of helicopters combined with the speed and efficiency advantages of fixed wing aircraft.

It is the private plane that could land and take off from anywhere. With its square wing, it may look uncannily like a biplane - but in fact this in a combined plane and tilt rotor helicopter. Called ...

Elytron Aircraft is at Heli-Expo 2015 ready to talk about these evolutions, and has brought the completed airframe of the company's two-seat technology demonstrator. The Elytron aircraft architecture ...

Elytron Aeronautica of Italy is offering to potential customers its family of tandem wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can weigh from 25 to 1,000 kg maximum takeoff weight (MTOW). Elytron had ...