NASA Details Puffin VTOL Electric Tail-Sitter

Credit: NASA CONCEPT
Researchers plan to flight-test a one-third-scale version of an electric-powered, tail-sitting, vertical-takeoff-and-landing single-person aircraft called the Puffin. The concept, unveiled by a NASA-led team at the American Helicopter Society (AHS) aeromechanics conference in San Francisco in...

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