DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell ...

The US Navy is looking into using drones to deliver critical repair cargo to broken warships. The BlueWater Maritime Logistics UAS project seeks innovative VTOL designs. The unique PteroDynamics ...

Bell Textron has completed the Critical Design Review for DARPA’s SPRINT (Speed and Runway Independent Technologies) X-Plane ...

Bell just completed the Critical Design Review for DARPA's SPRINT program, meaning it can build its next-gen X-76 VTOL ...

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

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 ...

Planned to fly in 2028, the X-76 will explore technologies for fast-flying runway-independent aircraft with folding rotors, ...

Toulouse-based hybrid-electric start-up Ascendance Flight Technologies has begun final assembly of its Atea vertical take-off ...

We've been talking about vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft for so long, without actually getting anywhere, that we've kind of given up hope of seeing them serve the needs of the so-called ...

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