There's a new X-plane in town. Bell Textron's tilt-rotor aircraft being built for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program, which aims to combine the features of a helicopter ...

The X-76 is not intended for mass production or combat service. Instead, it will serve as a testbed for new aerial ...

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Piasecki Aircraft's Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) tilt-duct VTOL aircraft has completed its maiden flight. On September 6 at Piasecki's West Helipad in Essington, Pennsylvania the ...

Proprotor blades stop and fold back and propulsion transitions from turboshaft to turbofan to accelerate the X-76 to speeds ...

The V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft that Bell is planning to build for the U.S. Army was reflected in rain water after demonstrating its skills at the Bell Flight Research Center in Arlington. Tom Fox ...

The Bell V-280 technology Demonstrator. Photo courtesy of Bell. The replacement for the Army’s air assault workhorse UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter is more like an airplane, so the service is ...

A version of this story appeared in the Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each Wednesday. The Air Force on ...

The V-22 Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Yakushima island. A U.S. V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, with 8 people on board, has crashed off the coast of Yakushima island in Kagoshima ...

WASHINGTON — Fort Worth aerospace manufacturer Bell Textron is developing the Army’s next long-range assault aircraft as part of a major defense contract, but that program could face headwinds ...