DARPA's X-76 Experimental Aircraft Aims to Combine Jet Speed with Helicopter Flexibility
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Summary
DARPA's SPRINT program aims to develop an aircraft that combines the speed of jets with the vertical takeoff and landing capabilities of helicopters. The experimental X-76 aircraft, now being built by Bell Textron following a successful Critical Design Review, represents the latest in the historic X-plane series designed to push aviation boundaries. The program seeks to eliminate the battlefield trade-off between runway-dependent speed and helicopter flexibility.
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· 3 pulledEliminating one of the battlefield's most difficult choices – between the high speed of an aircraft that needs a runway and the go-anywhere flexibility of a slower helicopter – is the goal of DARPA’s SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies (SPRINT) program.
SPRINT’s experimental aircraft, officially revealed as the X-76, is now being built by Bell Textron, Inc. following a successful Critical Design Review (CDR).
The designation places it within the historic lineage of X-planes that have long served to test the boundaries of aviation.
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