The SPRINT project is a joint DARPA/ US Special Operations Command effort that aims to fly an X-plane. The program had entered phase one in November 2023, and in May 2024, Aurora Flight Sciences and ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has ended a programme to build a large wing-in-ground (WIG) craft ...

Notably in the same week that a Chinese ekranoplan design emerged, DARPA announced the cancellation of its Liberty Lifter ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Bell Helicopters to build the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) unmanned ...

Ambitious waterborne cargo aircraft project canceled, but its technologies will be reused in other initiatives ...

The secretive Pentagon research agency says the Liberty Lifter programme has proven the viability of building an amphibian ...

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Bell Textron to build an X-plane demonstrator capable of flying at speeds of up to 450 knots, with the office […] ...

Bell will design and build a high-speed VTOL demonstrator for DARPA’s SPRINT program, as Aurora exits the competition.

Bell Textron Inc. has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Phase 2 of the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) X-plane program, moving forward to ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has reportedly cancelled the “Liberty Lifter” heavy cargo seaplane ...

The X-plane demonstrator builds on Bell’s experience with tiltrotor aircraft, but with a new stop/fold rotor feature that ...