The program's schedule is behind by a year following Lockheed Martin's protest over the Army's decision to choose Bell's ...
"They'll be able to replicate flight mode, by the way that ramp is built, without wheels ever leaving the ground," Textron eAviation's president and CEO said.
The V-22 Osprey, a unique tiltrotor aircraft of the U.S. military, combines the vertical takeoff and landing capabilities of ...
A V-280 Valor in flight. Bell is modifying the V-280 and pairing it with the V-247 drone to compete for the US Navy's Future Vertical Lift-Maritime Strike programme. (Bell) The US Navy (USN ...
The Bell V-280 Valor has completed final key performance parameters within the Army's Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstration program, proving it can conduct high-level, low-speed agility maneuver.
Bell is already investing in new buildings related to supporting the manufacturing of its new aircraft in the Dallas-Fort ...
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, announced on April 16 that it was cutting its staff by as many as 400 engineers.
The FLRAA competition pitted Bell’s V-280 Valor against Sikorsky and Boeing’s Defiant X, which features coaxial rotor blades. Bell is a subsidiary of Textron, and Sikorsky a subsidiary of ...
The Army in late 2022 chose Bell to build an aircraft based on its V-280 Valor technology demonstrator, and the program will soon enter the engineering and manufacturing development phase.