A Review on Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Tilt-Rotor and Tilt Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Table 2

Comparison of different aircraft [25].

	Multicopter	Fixed-wing aircraft	FW-VTOL aircraft
Take-off/landing	VTOL	Runway, catapult	VTOL/STOL
Hovering	Yes	No	Yes
Maneuvering	Very agile	Medium	Medium
Stability	Unstable	Stable in forwarding flight	Stable in forwarding flight
Range, endurance	Low	High	Medium
Forward speed	Low	High	High
Payload	Low	High	Medium
Control system	Propeller RPM change	Control surface deflection	Both