Electric-hybrid aircraft have taken another step from the exotic to the practical with VoltAero unveiling the production ...

Canards are a unique design feature of certain iconic planes, but there's a conventional reason why some manufacturers ...

January 6, 2009: U.S. firm General Dynamics has successfully tested its RCFC (Roll Controlled Fixed Canard) flight control and guidance system with 81mm mortars dropped from aircraft. The RCFC is like ...

The "Old Man's Airplane Company" dedicated itself to a single-turboprop pusher design featuring a high main wing with end plates set over the aft section of the fuselage and a fixed canard in the ...

Then, as now, canard describes an aircraft with the main wing mounted at the rear of the fuselage and a smaller wing fixed to the front. In the United States, the Curtiss-Wright company and the Army ...

The Japanese light engine manufacturer will support work on the powertrain for the utility and commuter aircraft. The VoltAero Cassio 330 hybrid-electric features a forward fixed canard and aft ...

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems and the U.S. Army Armament Research and Development Engineering Center (ARDEC) have successfully demonstrated a GPS-guided munition for use on small ...

The PGK design features a fixed-canard guidance and control approach with a self-generated power supply and with gun-hardened electronics. The fuze performs all standard functions and also includes a ...

In three test engagements 81mm mortar rounds -- equipped a Roll Control Fixed Canard control system from General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems -- were launched from a Tiger Shark UAV at ...

PGK greatly increases artillery accuracy through Orbital ATK’s innovative design which features a fixed-canard guidance approach with gun-hardened electronics and a self-generated power supply ...

Then, as now, canard describes an aircraft with the main wing mounted at the rear of the fuselage and a smaller wing fixed to the front. In the United States, the Curtiss-Wright company and the Army ...