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

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

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

Bell is reinventing aviation, again.

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Doors covering the embedded lift fans are open in the vertical flight phase. Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a refined concept for a fan-in-wing high-speed ...

Swiss aviation startup Sirius Aviation AG, unveils the revolutionary Sirius Jet – the world’s first hydrogen-powered Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft; crafted and designed in ...

The Cavorite X7's Low Projected Operating Cost Has Been Verified by a Leading Independent Audit Firm TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / March 5, 2026 / New Horizon Aircraft Ltd. ("Horizon Aircraft" or ...

A collaboration between Aurora Flight Sciences and Boeing is working on an innovative high-speed, vertical lift aircraft concept. They have just completed the conceptual design review and target first ...

DARPA has selected six companies to take concepts for a shipborne vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft through a preliminary design review (PDR) on the way to flying a planned X-plane ...

XTI Aerospace was considering hybrid-electric propulsion as an option for its TriFan 600 VTOL aircraft, which it sees as an alternative to business jets and helicopters.

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 ...