Bell Textron Inc., already one the largest employers in the Metroplex, has chosen its hometown of Fort Worth to build components for the next generation of military assault helicopters. The news, ...
It's been a while since we last heard anything of interest about the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program run by the U.S. Army. So much time, in fact, we kind of forgot there's a Black ...
Pilots demonstrated the capabilities of the V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft Thursday at the Bell Flight Research Center in Arlington. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer Bell Textron on Tuesday formally ...
As the U.S. Army moves closer to deciding on which Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) it may choose, evaluations are heavily focused on upgradeability. This makes sense: the Army has... Bell’s ...
For the past several decades the U.S. Army's airborne capabilities have been defined by a helicopter the entire world knows as the Black Hawk. Made by Sikorsky and flown for the first time in 1974, ...
The US Army designated Bell's V-280 Valor as its next-generation air assault vehicle, the MV-75. The tiltrotor is part of the Army's plan to modernize its aging fleet of military helicopters. The Army ...
Spirit AeroSystems is ramping up its work in the defense industry following Bell Helicopter’s announcement Monday that it selected Spirit to build the fuselage of a prototype tilt-rotor aircraft for ...
Farnborough Airshow 2016: Vince Tobin Vice President Advanced Tiltrotor Systems, Bell Helicopter talks about the Bell V-280 Valor programme The premier source of breaking business news for the ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The chief executive of Bell Helicopter said on Wednesday he was confident that the company's concept for the U.S. Army's next-generation helicopter would be selected for flight ...
Bell Helicopter and Sikorsky/Boeing could usher in a new era for military rotorcraft in 2017 when they fly their competing V-280 Valor and SB-1 Defiant technology demonstrators. In the final days of ...
The tiltrotor is part of the Army's plan to modernize its aging fleet of military helicopters. The Army plans to replace the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk with the MV-75 by the 2030s. It flies like a ...