DARPA to fund assembly of only one High Speed Vertical Take-Off and Landing design
By 
Ryan Finnerty2025-05-07T19:05:00
Bell and Aurora Flight Sciences have taken radically different approaches in a Pentagon X-plane contest to develop an experimental aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically, while also achieving fixed-wing jet speeds in horizontal flight.
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