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 ...

On this day in aviation history, February 19, 1957, the Bell X-14 made its first flight. This aircraft, capable of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and assembled from readily available components ...

Meet the X-1: When it comes to testing airplanes the “X” designation means experimental. The first X aircraft was built in 1945 by Bell in partnership with the U.S. Army Air Forces (later named the ...

Bell's revolutionary X-plane rotorcraft has received the green light to progress to the building and testing of a demonstrator aircraft. DARPA has down-selected the craft to move to Phase 2 of the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Originally designated the XS-1, the Bell X-1 was developed as part of a cooperative program that was initiated at the tail end of the Second World War by the National ...

Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, has been down-selected for Phase 2 of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) ...

The Bell X-1 rocket plane proved that man was capable of breaking the sound barrier. Chuck Yeager, a pilot who was already well known for his skill behind the flight stick of a P-51 Mustang during ...

Artist’s concept of the Bell X-Plane. Source | Bell Textron Inc. Bell Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), a Textron Inc. company, has been down-selected for Phase 2 of the Defense Advanced ...

These silent video clips, culled from footage at the National Archives and Records Administration, show a generalized sequence of ground and flight operations for the Bell X-1, the first airplane to ...