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 ...

There will come a time in the near future when aircraft will seem like nothing we presently have at our disposal. From stranger and stranger shapes to increasingly insane capabilities, aircraft of the ...

Bell is one step closer to introducing its military high-speed vertical take-off and landing (HSVTOL) aircraft. The company has recently announced that it has been selected for the next phase of the U ...

Bell's High Speed Vertical Takeoff and Landing concepts seek to answer a demand for light to heavy tactical VTOL aircraft that can operate at jet speeds across Pacific distances. The program manager ...

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 latest air-taxi concept seems to be among the most viable, because it comes from one of the world’s leading helicopter manufacturers. In January, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, ...

The SpaceX option package for new Tesla Roadster will include ~10 small rocket thrusters arranged seamlessly around car. These rocket engines dramatically improve acceleration, top speed, braking and ...

Thales will develop flight control systems for Bell’s vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft, the two companies said Tuesday. Bell has said the aircraft, which is to be used for on-demand urban ...

Bell has selected Electric Power Systems (EPS) to develop energy storage solutions for its vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft project. The planned on-demand urban mobility aircraft has continued to ...

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 ...