Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

On January 19, 1946, the Bell X-1 flew for the first time, launching a research program that would lead to the world's first ...

Bell has revealed an autonomous flying testbed based on a 429 light-twin commercial helicopter fitted with a fly-by-wire flight-control system. Developed by the airframer’s Advanced Programs team, the ...

The wind tunnel testing was carried out to validate the company’s Stop/Fold Jet Transition capability. Bell has completed wind tunnel testing of its X-plane model at the National Institute for ...

Testing autonomous flight technologies is a tricky business. Many aviation companies, be they startups or established players, create entirely new aircraft for this purpose alone, and that can prove ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Pilots at Halo Flight are ushering in new technology. The nonprofit air ambulance agency gave 3NEWS an exclusive tour Monday of their newest fleet member Bell-407 GXi ...

Bell Helicopter, a Textron company, announces the first flight of the Bell 525 Relentless. The maiden flight of the super-medium helicopter took place at the company’s aircraft assembly center in ...

DALLAS–Bell has completed flight testing of its 525 Relentless super-medium fly-by-wire rotorcraft and is in the final stages of readying the aircraft for market. While unable to provide detailed ...