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 ...

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 idea of vertical take-off and landing vehicles (VTOL) has been around for decades now, but only in recent times this now-not-so-sci-fi- concept became a much-needed tool for making life easier in ...

FORT WORTH—Bell has outlined new details of its proposed stop/fold tiltrotor plan following its selection by the U.S. Air Force—along with 10 other companies—for the next stage of AFWerx’s High-Speed ...

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 ...

When helicopter and VTOL aircraft maker Bell moved supply chain planning from spreadsheets to the Kinaxis platform, it democratized access and transparency Bell V-280 Valor in flight (Bell Textron Inc ...

In the early 60s, there were several studies into creating the first mass-produced vtol aircraft. A plane that could operate like a jet, and then at the same time, land vertically where needed. Bell, ...

Bell Helicopter has unveiled a full-scale mock-up of the X-Hawk vertical take-off and landing vehicle under development by Israeli company Urban Aeronautics. The mock-up is on display at Farnborough ...

Bell's HSVTOL concepts with folded rotors on display on 21 September 2021 at the Air Force Association's annual conference. (Janes/Pat Host) Bell Helicopters tested the high- and low-speed transitions ...

Bell has developed a pair of Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) scalable modular unmanned vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft capable of transporting payloads such as medical equipment, ammo, ...