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The funding granted by DARPA will provide these two contractors the opportunity to spend one year researching and refining their concepts for this revolutionary new type of aircraft. The technical ...

DARPA has awarded the Phase 2 contract for VTOL X-Plane to Aurora Flight Sciences. "Just when we thought it had all been done before, the Aurora team found room for invention—truly new elements ...

Fast-forward to the present day, and, thanks to DARPA, the earlier generations of manned X-planes are slated to be succeeded ...

VTOL X-Plane showcased ambitious goals for vertical flight and speed, yet program cancellation exposed new directions in ...

The Pentagon will award its next-generation Air Force fighter jet contract to Boeing, a deal initially worth more than $20 ...

Sikorsky on Monday detailed recent successful demonstrations with its “rotor blown wing” unmanned aircraft system (UAS), ...

DARPA just revealed an animation showing the conceptual design and functionality of its unmanned VTOL X-Plane, nicknamed "Lightningstrike." VTOL stands for "vertical takeoff and landing." ...

Aerospace giant Sikorsky announced it has conducted a series of flight tests for the rotor blown wing drone being developed ...

Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook Following is a transcript of the video: So there's different ways of creating stealth aircraft. The very first one that DARPA funded: the "Have Blue" prototype ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — which has been known to fund the development of sci-fi-sounding ideas like flying aircraft ... for radio science, new self-assembled ...