{"id":7124,"date":"2015-12-20T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T23:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2016-01-09T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T23:13:37","slug":"tail-sitter-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/20\/tail-sitter-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tail-Sitter Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/1012739\/us-military-developing-radical-tail-sitter-drone-that-can-land-anywhere\/\" target=\"_blank\">from The Express Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>US military developing radical \u2018tail-sitter&#8217; drone that lands anywhere<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.tribune.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/111890.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>PHOTO: US Navy and US federal government\/ Mail Online<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The design for a flying-wing tail sitter drone which lands on its tail, has been revealed by the\u00a0Northrop Grumman Corporation in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The drone, which the company says does not require a runway to land, has the ability to land anywhere on its tail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><\/div>\n<p>The design is part of Northrop\u2019s proposal for the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency\u2019s (DARPA) Tern programme.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<em>FlightGlobal<\/em>,\u00a0DARPA plans to ink a contract in January to build and fly a full-scale prototype from a barge or decommissioned navy ship, says Chris Hernandez, senior vice-president of research, technology and advanced design for Northrop.<\/p>\n<p>Northrop\u2019s tail sitter design includes a set of large counter-rotating propellers covering almost two-thirds of a roughly 9.14m (30ft)-diameter wingspan and it carries weapons and sensors as stores underneath the wing, reveals Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/1012739\/us-military-developing-radical-tail-sitter-drone-that-can-land-anywhere\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Express Tribune<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Express Tribune US military developing radical \u2018tail-sitter&#8217; drone that lands anywhere PHOTO: US Navy and US federal government\/ Mail Online The design for a flying-wing tail sitter drone which lands on its tail, has been revealed by the\u00a0Northrop Grumman Corporation in the United States. The drone, which the company says does not require [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}