Planned to fly in 2028, the X-76 will explore technologies for fast-flying runway-independent aircraft with folding rotors, crewed and uncrewed.

There's a new X-plane in town. Bell Textron's tilt-rotor aircraft being built for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program, which aims to combine the features of a helicopter ...

The X-76 is not intended for mass production or combat service. Instead, it will serve as a testbed for new aerial ...

Bell is reinventing aviation, again.

Proprotor blades stop and fold back and propulsion transitions from turboshaft to turbofan to accelerate the X-76 to speeds ...

DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. The DARPA ...

In military aviation, the runway has always been a tether. It provides the distance ...

Bell just completed the Critical Design Review for DARPA's SPRINT program, meaning it can build its next-gen X-76 VTOL aircraft.

Bell and DARPA announced the completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the SPRINT aircraft, and its new name: X-76.

Bell's X-76 aircraft achieves 517 mph cruise speeds with vertical takeoff capability, eliminating runway dependencies through ...

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