The Bell X-22 was one of America’s most ambitious VTOL experiments, using four tilting ducted fans to combine the hover ...

There will come a time in the near future when aircraft will seem like nothing we presently have at our disposal. From stranger and stranger shapes to increasingly insane capabilities, aircraft of the ...

We got a glimpse at what a new cross between a helicopter and a jet aircraft might look like after Bell released a new image. It's of a model used in wind tunnel tests of its entry in DARPA's Speed ...

Vertical lift manufacturer Bell has delivered a test article to the US Air Force that aims to demonstrate a novel technology concept that combines the vertical take-off and landing traits of a ...

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Bell Textron to proceed with Phase 2 of its Speed and Runway Independent Technologies X-plane project, which involves a ...

With the rotor stopped, the blades are stowed in the sled test at Holloman. Credit: Bell Bell has completed sled tests of the stop/fold rotor concept for a high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing ...

Bell will take its stop/fold tiltrotor X-plane to a preliminary design review under Phase 1B of DARPA’s Sprint project. Credit: Bell Bell has been named as the second performer under Phase 1B of a ...

The advances of Aurora’s demonstrator ensure that the company’s fan-in-wing VTOL experiments will extend well beyond DARPA’s SPRINT. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, is poised to redefine ...

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Buoyed by V-280 win, Bell presses ahead with high-speed VTOL concept. Bell’s proposed high-speed VTOL aircraft will hover and fly at more than 400 knots. (Rendering: Bell) ...

Seattle-based startup for aerial mobility Jetoptera tested its innovative bladeless VTOL aircraft concept to demonstrate its ability to reach speeds of 0.8 Mach or 614 mph. The data was reported ...