Spinwing Development Highlights:
| 1996
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Four pound Concept Demonstrator Begins Flight Tests and Successfully demonstrates World's first inflight conversions between the only two operationally successful forms of heavier-than-air aircraft, pure helicopters and pure fixed wing aircraft. |
| 1997 | Naval Research Laboratory CRADA Confirms Spinwing Advantages |
| Whirlstand Test Fixture Designed and Built | |
| 50 pound Spinwing Whirlstand Specimen Built & Tested in Ground Effect |
| 1998 | 50 pound Spinwing Whirlstand Specimen Tested Out of Ground Effect |
| Design and construction of 50 pound Spinwing UAV |
| 1999 | 50 pound Spinwing UAV Flies in Ground Effect |
| Computer Modeling Helicopter Mode |
| 2000 | 50 pound Spinwing UAV Flies Out of Ground Effect |
| Electronic Cyclic Technology Tested | |
| Powertrain for Airplane Mode Designed and Fabricated | |
| Computer Modeling Conversion & Sizing Codes |
| 2001 | Two Different 1 Pound Electric Spinwings Built and Test Flown |
| Expanded Computational Understanding Across Size Spectrum | |
| Expanding Block 1 Flight Testing Preparatory to Block 2 (conversion) Work | |
| 2002 | RM2 Spinwing (~110 pound gross weight vehicle) begins Block II flight tests |
| Design studies for various missions and configurations are perfected | |