Skyworks Aeronautics

[3][4][5] In 2001, Time magazine listed GBA's Hawk Gyroplane as one of their featured "Inventions of the Year.

They added helicopter-style collective pitch control which allowed their aircraft to achieve vertical takeoff and landing and to stabilize flight at high and low speeds.

The turbine-engined prototype first flew in July 2000, with a Rolls-Royce 250 420 hp (313 kW) turboprop engine and was the world's first turbine powered gyroplane.

In November, 2005, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected a company-led team to design a proof-of-concept high-speed, long-range, VTOL GBA-DARPA Heliplane designed for combat search and rescue.

[13] The project was named the “Heliplane” by DARPA and intended to meet economy and performance goals not achievable by existing aircraft.