The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just revealed a new project that could completely change the way military aircraft operate on the battlefield. It is the X-76, an experimental ...

The advances of Aurora’s demonstrator ensure that the company’s fan-in-wing VTOL experiments will extend well beyond DARPA’s SPRINT. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, is poised to redefine ...

A multi-institutional research team led by Washington University in St. Louis has received a five-year, $4.25 million grant ...

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 ...

The company says the rim-driven ducted-fan system is designed to provide greater thrust for a given power input, with ...

The EVADE program aims to quickly evaluate lightweight autonomous VTOL aircraft with enhanced range, endurance, and payload capacity. Standardized software architecture, including Sikorsky's MATRIX ...

AV’s Wildcat has tail-mounted lift propellers for vertical flight and a nose-mounted prop for wing-borne cruise. Credit: Aerovironment AeroVironment’s Wildcat has transitioned to wing-borne forward ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued an official designation to the UAV designed under the Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration program, calling it the ...

Congress created the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to make sure America was never beaten by technological ...

An aircraft that stays airborne for five years – that is the plan for the US defence research department, and one that could change operational outlooks forever Setting a goal to prove that a ...

If all goes well, the Pentagon this week will test an unmanned aircraft that, in theory, can travel at speeds upwards of 13,000 miles per hour and send a missile to strike an identified target within ...