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 ...
The Bell X-22 was a ducted fan VTOL aircraft created to explore a new path between helicopters and conventional airplanes.
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 ...
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 ...
Bell’s D-188 was one of the most extreme American VTOL fighter concepts of the Cold War, combining eight engines, rotating pods, internal lift jets, and high speed fighter performance in a single ...