Thursday, 10 March 2016

DARPA picks 'LightningStrike' as experimental VTOL plane





DARPA Is Building A Bizarre Drone That’s Half-Helicopter, Half-Plane. DARPA picks 'LightningStrike' as experimental VTOL plane

DARPA VTOL Plane -Takes Off Like Helicopter & Flies Like Jet

DARPA just revealed an animation showing the conceptual design and functionality of its unmanned VTOL X-Plane, nicknamed "Lightningstrike."

DARPA picks 'LightningStrike' as experimental VTOL plane 


VTOL stands for "vertical takeoff and landing." The aircraft takes off and lands like a helicopter, but flies like an airplane. With a top speed of 460 mph, he X-Plane will be 50 percent faster than any previous VTOL aircraft in history. The first test flights are scheduled for 2018.

DARPA picks experimental VTOL plane

No one has ever seen any airplane like this, except on computer animation(or maybe a video game).



Now, some of the world's top aeronautical engineers are going to build it for real.



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