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Bell's revolutionary X-plane rotorcraft has received the green light to progress to the building and testing of a ...
Bell Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), a Textron Inc. company, has been down-selected for Phase 2 of the Defense ...
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 X-plane demonstrator builds on Bell’s experience with tiltrotor aircraft, but with a new stop/fold rotor feature that ...
A Fort Worth defense contractor has been awarded contract to build a military aircraft prototype with high-speed vertical ...
Bell will design and build a high-speed VTOL demonstrator for DARPA’s SPRINT program, as Aurora exits the competition.
Bell to Build X-Plane for Phase 2 of DARPA Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane Program  Front Page ...
American defense contractor Bell was selected by DARPA to move forward with the build of its aircraft for the Speed and ...
DARPA named Bell Textron to proceed with the next phase of its SPRINT X-Plane project, to design and build an aircraft that ...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has tasked Bell Textron with an X-plane demonstrator high-speed ...
In July, DARPA awarded a $94 million contract to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) to start building the LongShot X-plane, an air-launched uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) designed ...