It doesn’t occur daily that a $1 billion line item in a defense bill shakes the aerospace community, but the President Trump-sponsored funding of the U.S. Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane did exactly ...

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

Tensions on the programme have long simmered, with Airbus and Dassault recently clashing over workshare in June ahead of the ...

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 ...