Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft are becoming increasingly important for the future of military aviation and strategic superiority. As one of the pioneers of vertical lift aircraft technology, ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Bell’s research into tiltrotor aircraft stretches back over sixty years. In the mid-1960s, Bell built the X-22, a one-off four-rotor tiltrotor design made to provide ...

We got a glimpse at what a new cross between a helicopter and a jet aircraft might look like after Bell released a new image. It's of a model used in wind tunnel tests of its entry in DARPA's Speed ...

With the rotor stopped, the blades are stowed in the sled test at Holloman. Credit: Bell Bell has completed sled tests of the stop/fold rotor concept for a high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing ...

The idea of vertical take-off and landing vehicles (VTOL) has been around for decades now, but only in recent times this now-not-so-sci-fi- concept became a much-needed tool for making life easier in ...

The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has contracted Bell to research a high-speed vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The laboratory granted Bell a $950,000 contract to conduct ...

When helicopter and VTOL aircraft maker Bell moved supply chain planning from spreadsheets to the Kinaxis platform, it democratized access and transparency Bell V-280 Valor in flight (Bell Textron Inc ...

Several years after losing interest in the Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout, the US Army is again searching for a “long-range, runway-independent” UAV that can launch anywhere, anytime. The potential ...

Bell will conduct the first of several operational demonstrations of its APT-70 cargo drone with a competitive flyoff under the U.S. Navy’s Tactical Resupply Unmanned Aircraft System (TRUAS) prize ...