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Bell's revolutionary X-plane rotorcraft has received the green light to progress to the building and testing of a ...
American agency DARPA pulled the plug on the Liberty Lifter ground-effect seaplane three years after it first announced it.
The SPRINT project is a joint DARPA/ US Special Operations Command effort that aims to fly an X-plane. The program had entered phase one in November 2023, and in May 2024, Aurora Flight Sciences and ...
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has ended a programme to build a large wing-in-ground (WIG) craft ...
The United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently achieved a new record in transmitting energy ...
The X-plane demonstrator builds on Bell’s experience with tiltrotor aircraft, but with a new stop/fold rotor feature that ...
Liberty Lifter was intended to design and build a seaplane with the cargo capacity of a C-17 Globemaster, that could take off ...
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has reportedly cancelled the “Liberty Lifter” heavy cargo seaplane ...
Bell will design and build a high-speed VTOL demonstrator for DARPA’s SPRINT program, as Aurora exits the competition.
If you've been hoping for a long-range, low-cost, heavy-lift seaplane using Wing-In-Ground effect (WIG), you'll have to be ...
A mysterious blob sits on a lab table in Tulane University’s Stern Hall. It’s slimy, squishy and a little bigger than a ...