There's a new X-plane in town. Bell Textron's tilt-rotor aircraft being built for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent ...

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The V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft that Bell is planning to build for the U.S. Army was reflected in rain water after demonstrating its skills at the Bell Flight Research Center in Arlington. Tom Fox ...

Piasecki Aircraft's Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) tilt-duct VTOL aircraft has completed its maiden flight. On September 6 at Piasecki's West Helipad in Essington, Pennsylvania the ...

Tilt rotor aircraft like the V-22 Osprey and V-280 Valor are designed to combine the vertical lift of a helicopter with the ...

eVTOL (Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing) craft are some of the more exciting air vehicles being developed lately. They aim to combine the maneuverability and landing benefits of helicopters with ...

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Proprotor blades stop and fold back and propulsion transitions from turboshaft to turbofan to accelerate the X-76 to speeds of about 400 kt. Credit: Bell The stop-fold tiltrotor uncrewed aircraft ...

The V-22 Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Yakushima island. A U.S. V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, with 8 people on board, has crashed off the coast of Yakushima island in Kagoshima ...

The worldwide standdown was ordered after preliminary investigation information indicates a potential materiel failure caused the CV-22 crash in Japan that killed 8 crew members. The V-22s operated by ...

Transcend Air's ground bound scale model test rig consists of an in-house fabricated boom, a one-fifth Vy400 scale model and a 2006 Toyota Sequoia SUV. Transcend Air plans to launch production of its ...