First look at jet-powered VTOL X-plane for DARPA program By David Szondy December 07, 2024 Bell wind tunnel model of the new X-plane Bell View 2 Images ...

Karem Aircraft has been confirmed as one of four competitors selected for the initial preliminary design phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (Darpa) Vertical Take-Off and Landing ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon’s research department, recently announced that it has awarded Phase 2 contract for its experimental VTOL X-Plane to Aurora Flight ...

DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. The DARPA ...

The wind tunnel testing was carried out to validate the company’s Stop/Fold Jet Transition capability. Bell has completed wind tunnel testing of its X-plane model at the National Institute for ...

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 ...

The next phase of Bell’s X-planes is on the horizon. The aviation company has just completed the Critical Design Review for the U.S.’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), underneath its ...

The EVADE program aims to quickly evaluate lightweight autonomous VTOL aircraft with enhanced range, endurance, and payload capacity. Standardized software architecture, including Sikorsky's MATRIX ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has reached an agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to transition its X-Plane program technology to commercial applications, including expanding ...