A while back, we wrote about the ducted fan, single rotor, VTOL drone that [Armin Strobel] was working on. It wasn’t quite finished then, and hadn’t got off the ground yet. He’s posted an update, and ...

Emil from The Practical Engineer purchased two electric duct fans for this project. A duct fan has a propeller-like rotor fan installed inside a cylindrical duct, and generates thrust by rotating it.

Whisper Aero doesn't plan to actually make the Whisper Jet, but this vision shows how 11 small ducted fans could be mounted on each wing. The jet engines on commercial airplanes can be absolutely huge ...

Ducted fans have emerged as a promising propulsion solution for modern Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), particularly in applications that demand high safety, efficiency and low noise levels. Enclosing ...

The Airvinci personal ducted fan helicopter and drones could enable the flying car future. The unmanned heavy cargo drone version looks like a good way to commercially ramp up to true personal flight.

Some of the most common types of axial fans are vaneaxial, tubeaxial and duct fans, which are designed to be installed in ...

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, ...