The Pentagon’s secretive technology research arm is ending a project to develop a heavy-lift amphibian aircraft. After three years or research and development, the US Defense Advanced Research ...

Wind tunnel tests focused on low-speed handling of Aurora fan-in-wing blended wing body VTOL configuration. Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight Sciences has completed low-speed wind tunnel ...

Bell will take its stop/fold tiltrotor X-plane to a preliminary design review under Phase 1B of DARPA’s Sprint project. Credit: Bell Bell has been named as the second performer under Phase 1B of a ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has updated the design of its Liberty Lifter seaborne military heavy-lift transport – a highly efficient X-plane the company is developing for DARPA that achieves bulk lift by ...