Next-generation Bell tiltrotor advances in DARPA X-plane competition

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Source: Bell

Bell’s proposal for the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies project involves a tiltrotor-like aircraft, with the addition of a third, jet-powered flight mode in addition to the rotor-driven vertical and horizontal flight modes found in existing designs.

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