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The Mach 5 SR-91 Aurora Spy Plane Summed Up in 4 Words
Aurora is the ultimate aviation ghost story—a top-secret, hypersonic spy plane rumored to be the successor to the legendary ...
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Aura Aero’s Integral E could serve as testbed for Vaeridion’s electric propulsion technologies
Two European electric aviation pioneers are exploring opportunities to share testing resources and production facilities as ...
Bell develops tiltrotor aircraft with a flight speed of up to 832 km/h
Bell is allowed to develop a demonstrator for a fast tiltrotor aircraft as part of the Pentagon's SPRINT-X-Planes program.
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Bell is awarded Phase 2 funding for DARPA X-Plane
Bell Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), a Textron Inc. company, has been down-selected for Phase 2 of the Defense ...
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Bell to build 517 mph tiltrotor X-plane that combines helicopter and jet speeds
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 ...
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DARPA ends Liberty Lifter wing-in-ground craft programme
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has ended a programme to build a large wing-in-ground (WIG) craft ...
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Liberty Lifter Ekranoplan Transport Program Scrapped by DARPA
Notably in the same week that a Chinese ekranoplan design emerged, DARPA announced the cancellation of its Liberty Lifter ...
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DARPA selects Bell Helicopters to build SPRINT high-speed VTOL craft
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Bell Helicopters to build the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) unmanned ...