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

U.S. President Trump's "One, Big Beautiful Bill Act," H.R. 1 includes $1 billion for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) X-37B ...

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

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 X-plane demonstrator builds on Bell’s experience with tiltrotor aircraft, but with a new stop/fold rotor feature that ...

For over 70 years, the X-planes have represented the cutting edge of American aerospace innovation, experimental aircraft ...

It’s now officially the X-66A, meaning that it’s an experimental research aircraft. NASA already has two ongoing X-plane programs, so the X-66A makes three of them.

The X-plane features a sleek composite exterior and a low-drag, blended-wing body. Aurora said three lift fans have been incorporated into the wings to enable vertical flight.

X-plane status is granted by the Air Force to development programs such as that of the X-66A, which aim to create revolutionary experimental aircraft configurations.

X-Plane is essentially a rigorous flight simulator that simulates everything from helicopters and small civilian two-seaters to jet spy planes and the space shuttle. X-Plane has long been a labor ...

X-Plane for iPhone is based on X-Plane, which is the most advanced flight simulator available for the Mac. (We reviewed version 8.0 back in 2005; version 9 is now current.) ...