Bell Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), a Textron Inc. company, has been down-selected for Phase 2 of the Defense ...

American agency DARPA pulled the plug on the Liberty Lifter ground-effect seaplane three years after it first announced it.

Bell is allowed to develop a demonstrator for a fast tiltrotor aircraft as part of the Pentagon's SPRINT-X-Planes program.

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

Liberty Lifter was intended to design and build a seaplane with the cargo capacity of a C-17 Globemaster, that could take off ...

Notably in the same week that a Chinese ekranoplan design emerged, DARPA announced the cancellation of its Liberty Lifter ...

The SPRINT project is a joint DARPA/ US Special Operations Command effort that aims to fly an X-plane. The program had entered phase one in November 2023, and in May 2024, Aurora Flight Sciences and ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has ended a programme to build a large wing-in-ground (WIG) craft ...

Aurora Flight Sciences, one of two teams vying to design and build a military seaplane with heavy-air-lift capability, has reconfigured the tail section of its Liberty Lifter design.

Aurora Flight Sciences (Bridgeport, W.Va.), a Boeing Company, recently completed conceptual design review for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) high-speed, vertical lift X-plane, ...

AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES (Boeing) completed conceptual design review for vertical lift X-plane to be developed under DARPA's SPRINT program; concept is low-drag, fan-in-wing demonstrator that ...

COLUMBUS – In its third expansion since opening in 2005, Aurora Flight Sciences is investing in a $43.8 million project that will create 63 new jobs. The company plans to fill the jobs by the ...