First look at jet-powered VTOL X-plane for DARPA program By David Szondy December 07, 2024 Bell wind tunnel model of the new X-plane Bell View 2 Images ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is working on a high-speed VTOL military aircraft as part of DARPA's Speed & Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program. Early ground effect testing has ...

Karem Aircraft has been confirmed as one of four competitors selected for the initial preliminary design phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (Darpa) Vertical Take-Off and Landing ...

The advances of Aurora’s demonstrator ensure that the company’s fan-in-wing VTOL experiments will extend well beyond DARPA’s SPRINT. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, is poised to redefine ...

Sikorsky has revealed the Unmanned Rotor Blown Wing concept it is designing with Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works under Phase 1 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s ...

Vertical takeoff and vertical landing are two physics quandaries that have long confused the world of avionics. Modern airplanes use powerful jet engines to hover over a landing surface, but DARPA is ...