One major contender in this race is Bell with its X-plane that looks something like a Bell Boeing Osprey with the sort of hidden feature one would expect from a Transformer toy. After take off, the ...

Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, has been down-selected for Phase 2 of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) ...

DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. The DARPA ...

Bell will take its stop/fold tiltrotor X-plane to a preliminary design review under Phase 1B of DARPA’s Sprint project. Credit: Bell Bell has been named as the second performer under Phase 1B of a ...