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DARPA's High-Speed VTOL SPRINT Aircraft Receives X-76 X-Plane Designation
DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. The DARPA (Defense Advance Research Project Agency) has announced on Mar.
Aerospace startup Hermeus has taken another step toward challenging the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird’s legendary supersonic speed record as the company’s uncrewed Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 lifted off from Spaceport America in New Mexico on March 2,
History was made last Saturday when the first-ever coast-to-coast flight by an all-electric aircraft was completed with the Beta CX300 touching down at Santa Monica Airport. The flight began in Burlington, Vermont – home of Beta Technologies ...
Business aircraft orders, deliveries and revenue continue to improve year over year despite the pressures from global supply chain disruptions, tariffs and geopolitical tensions.
DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape and awaits its radical wing design. With its advanced ...
Since January 20, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has responded to 20 "tracks of interest" entering the Palm Beach area during flight restrictions.Stay up-to-date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25 NORAD responded to a ...
VTOL capability comes from the vehicle’s unique tandem-wing, “tilt-aircraft” architecture. Other eVTOL models feature vertical rotors or propellers that tilt forward to support fixed wings during cruise flight. Pivotal’s design includes eight fixed rotors on an airframe which itself is designed to tilt when transitioning into and out of hover.