NASA has completed the first taxi tests of its experimental X-59 supersonic demonstrator, which aims to conduct low sonic ...

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 a contract to build a military aircraft prototype with high-speed vertical ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHILLING pictures have emerged showing China’s terrifying new giant “sea monster” warplane for the first time. And the wing-in-ground effect (WIG) aircraft, commonly known as an ...

Bell Textron has been selected by US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Phase 2 of its Speed and Runway ...

DARPA named Bell Textron to proceed with the next phase of its SPRINT X-Plane project, to design and build an aircraft that ...

Chilling pictures have emerged showing China’s terrifying new giant “sea monster” warplane for the first time.