These CycloRotor barrels are known as Voith-Schneider propellers, and they spin at a reasonably constant rate when an aircraft is off the ground, rather than needing to constantly speed up and slow ...

Operating out of Linz, Austria, CycloTech exists to propagate and commercialize a single idea: the CycloRotor propulsion system. In the marine world, they're known as Voith-Schneider propellers, and ...

Flying cars have remained a lovers fantasy for many years now. Due to the future technologies and the growing need for a solution to the problem of transport, the vision has become much closer. At the ...

With a patented cyclorotor placed in its center, positioning sensors that help it avoid obstacles, and quickly swappable payload arms, Astria wants to take over our risky jobs, whether they involve ...

The CycloTech CycloRotor eVTOL concept aircraft has been launched. The prototype is coming a decade and a half after CycloTech introduced the concept. The CycloTech CruiseUp features propulsion ...

The CruiseUp air car boasts one of the most futuristic looks in the eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) world, but it's much more than that. Behind this intriguing appearance lies the power ...

The BlackBird has six CycloRotor propulsion units arranged to enable 360-deg. thrust vectoring. Credit: CycloTech Austria’s CycloTech has completed the first flight of its BlackBird cycloidal-rotor ...

Austrian startup CycloTech has begun tethered flight tests of a demonstrator equipped with its cycloidal rotor technology for vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft. Flown indoors initially, the ...

Previous to the first free flight, the development team performed tests on a static test bench and on a dynamic test bench. On the static test bench, the technology demonstrator is fixed to a frame, ...