Technically, there is no official replacement for the Boeing CH-47 yet under US Army development. Significant progress on the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk’s successor has taken place in recent years, ...

In December, Fort Worth-based Bell Textron announced it had chosen its hometown for a new manufacturing center to build components for the Army's next generation of helicopters. The decision followed ...

It flies like a helicopter, cruises like a plane, and could redefine how the US Army fights wars within the next decade. The Army chose the Bell V-280 Valor as its next-generation assault aircraft, ...

The V-280 Valor tiltrotor demonstrator, photographed in 2021. The tiltrotor has been cleared to enter its initial manufacturing phase. (Bell Helicopter) The US Army has approved the Bell V-280 Valor ...

Aerospace and defense contractor Bell Textron, Inc. is offering voluntary separation packages to employees in Fort Worth and Amarillo as the company prepares to build a new attack helicopter for the U ...

The V-280 Valor is seen in a video playing above the Bell booth at the 2023 Association of the U.S. Army convention in Washington, D.C. (Colin Demarest/C4ISRNET) ROME — Bell and Leonardo are to work ...

Bell Textron Inc. is considering far north Fort Worth for a new manufacturing facility that would build parts for the next generation of military helicopters. The plant off Interstate 35W would employ ...

A V-280 Valor in flight. Bell is modifying the V-280 and pairing it with the V-247 drone to compete for the US Navy's Future Vertical Lift-Maritime Strike programme. (Bell) The US Navy (USN) is ...

Helicopters are incredible machines with amazing capabilities that fixed-wing aircraft do not have. In spite of this, however, helicopters also have limitations — most notably, the maximum speed they ...

Spirit’s rapid prototyping facility in Wichita, Kansas, designed and assembled the unit in 22 months. The composite fuselage will ship to Bell’s Amarillo, Texas, facility for final assembly.