Boeing has begun flight testing its X-50A Dragonfly Canard Rotor Wing (CRW) concept demonstrator, completing the long-awaited first hover at the US Army Proving Ground in Yuma, Arizona last week.

Engineers at Boeing’s Mesa helicopter works have developed a radical new technology that proponents believe could revolutionize the industry and keep the factory busy for the indefinite future. Called ...

Excess reaction-drive rotor-hub friction could delay start of forward-flight tests Boeing Phantom Works plans to resume flight testing of the X-50A Dragonfly canard rotor/wing (CRW) technology ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Boeing have lost the first of two Canard Rotor Wing prototypes to a flight accident. During the third hover mission, the rotorcraft crashed for ...

Boeing Phantom Works is trying again to demonstrate its X-50A canard rotor/wing helicopter, which attempts to blend virtues of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft. The No. 2 X-50A Dragonfly made its first ...

A new type of helicopter, which the Boeing Co. says could revolutionize the industry, flew for the first time Wednesday at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Yuma. The Canard Rotor/Wing aircraft was ...