A Denver-based start-up has raised $10 million in equity “crowdfunding” to help develop a ducted-fan powered, fixed-wing business aircraft called the TriFan 600. XTI began a crowdfunding campaign on ...

Any student new to the principles of fluid dynamics will be familiar with Bernoulli’s principle and the Venturi effect, where the speed of a liquid or gas increases when the size of the conduit it ...

FLUID POWER: ThinGap LLC announced a TG14090 Brushless dc Ring Motor that delivers 122 kW of shaft power, allowing a ducted-fan to generate 600 pounds of thrust, depending on the fan blade design. The ...

A new study reveals how noise is generated and propagated from these engines, technically known as boundary layer ingesting (BLI) ducted fans. The mystery of how futuristic aircraft embedded engines, ...

Urban Aeronautics has completed initial windtunnel tests of a newly disclosed 250kt (465km/h)-capable cargo variant of its Mule ducted-fan unmanned air vehicle. Powered by a 1,600shp (1,1190kW)-class ...

The Israeli developed AirMule, an unmanned VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft from Urban Aeronautics has successfully carried out take-offs, flights to and from a specified location and RTLs ...