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The future of U.S. military rotorcraft took another step toward tiltrotor technology following Bell’s recent down-select to develop a high-speed, hovering X-plane design for the Pentagon. As part of ...
A Fort Worth defense contractor has been awarded contract to build a military aircraft prototype with high-speed vertical ...
The X-37B program was developed as part of a partnership between the US Air Force's Rapid Capabilities Office and the US ...
NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) tested a model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic ...
European plane maker Airbus and U.S.-based Kratos Defense have partnered to supply combat drones to the German Air Force by ...
Supersonic tunnel trials suggest the X-59’s shape can scatter shock waves, paving the way for hush-hush high-speed flight.
Bell is allowed to develop a demonstrator for a fast tiltrotor aircraft as part of the Pentagon's SPRINT-X-Planes program.
Tensions on the programme have long simmered, with Airbus and Dassault recently clashing over workshare in June ahead of the ...
B is part of a $11.3B budget increase for Space Force amid the White House leaving civilian spaceflight on a shoestring ...
Bell Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), a Textron Inc. company, has been down-selected for Phase 2 of the Defense ...
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 ...
Bell's revolutionary X-plane rotorcraft has received the green light to progress to the building and testing of a ...