The project aims to revolutionise military air mobility by enabling high-speed operations without relying on runways.

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

Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, has been selected for Phase 2 of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ...

Bell to Build X-Plane for Phase 2 of DARPA Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane Program  Front Page ...

Bell's concept for an advanced tiltrotor-jet hybrid aircraft will move into the build stage of the US Defense Advanced ...

After the U.S. Air Force selected the F-47, DARPA disclosed that Boeing and Lockheed Martin each built a demonstrator aircraft for NGAD, which first flew ...

NASA is in the final stages of testing its X-59 plane for supersonic flight. You can see images of an afterburner test before the aircraft takes off in 2025.

After take off, the X-plane tilts its rotor nacelles forward for horizontal flight and locks them off as the jet engines take over. At this point, the rotor blades become a liability creating ...

Industry News Around the Web boeing transportation Boeing 777X delayed again, and airlines are not pleased The company's turbulent year shows no signs of letting up By Zo Ahmed October 15, 2024 at ...