Bell advances to build phase of secretive DARPA high-speed VTOL contest

Bell HSVTOL flight transition

Source: Bell

Bell’s concept for an advanced tiltrotor-jet hybrid aircraft will move into the build stage of the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Speed and Runway Independent Technologies X-plane contest, after defeating rival finalist Aurora Flight Sciences.

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