The Bell X-22 was one of America’s most ambitious VTOL experiments, using four tilting ducted fans to combine the hover control of a helicopter with the speed of a fixed-wing aircraft. It was tested ...

On this day in aviation history, 60 years ago (March 17, 1966), the Bell X-22 flew for the first time. The X-22 was an experimental vertical and/or short take-off and landing (V/STOL) aircraft, ...

Bell’s concept for an advanced tiltrotor-jet hybrid aircraft will move into the build stage of the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Speed and Runway Independent Technologies X-plane ...

Bell's revolutionary X-plane rotorcraft has received the green light to progress to the building and testing of a demonstrator aircraft. DARPA has down-selected the craft to move to Phase 2 of the ...

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Bell Textron to build an X-plane demonstrator capable of flying at speeds of up to 450 knots, with the office confirming ...

Artist’s concept of the Bell X-Plane. Source | Bell Textron Inc. Bell Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), a Textron Inc. company, has been down-selected for Phase 2 of the Defense Advanced ...

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) ...