A Fort Worth defense contractor has been awarded contract to build a military aircraft prototype with high-speed vertical ...

Designers intend for the Mi-80 to feature more powerful engines and advanced avionics, enabling both manual and automatic operation during day and night—including over terrain lacking visual landmarks ...

Russia is developing a next-generation multi-role helicopter, the Mi-80, to replace its aging Mi-8 and Mi-17 fleets. This is ...

A flying device inspired by woven Japanese baskets is among the architecture and design projects from Kent State University.

Bell is allowed to develop a demonstrator for a fast tiltrotor aircraft as part of the Pentagon's SPRINT-X-Planes program.

Bell Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), a Textron Inc. company, has been down-selected for Phase 2 of the Defense ...

The U.S. Marine Corps retired the CH-46 in 2015, but it's still used by other countries and the commercial sector. In its ...

The SPRINT project is a joint DARPA and US Special Operations Command effort that aims to fly a tiltrotor X-plane.

High speed machines are gaining popularity in more and more applications. Besides permanent magnet (PM) machines, switched reluctance machines (SRMs) are very competitive candidates for high-speed ...

Bell's revolutionary X-plane rotorcraft has received the green light to progress to the building and testing of a ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Bell Helicopters to build the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) unmanned ...