After the disastrous 1980 hostage crisis in Iran, the United States recognized the need for an aircraft capable of taking off and landing like a helicopter, but flying as fast as an airplane. The ...

A joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Bell Helicopter has received two contract modifications worth potentially $411.9 million combined to repair various parts of the U.S. Navy‘s V-22 Osprey ...

There are certain aircraft that refuse to be pigeon-holed. The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is one of them. The Osprey is unique among aircraft, being something of a transformer type. It's designed to ...

Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, and Boeing celebrate the upcoming completion of the CV-22 Program of Record for the U.S. Air Force. Bell and Boeing commemorated the V-22 Osprey production ...

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 ...

Boeing is designing a tiltrotor drone wingman concept to support the Army’s helicopter fleet, similar to the Air Force’s push for collaborative combat aircraft, as the Army rushes to field unmanned ...

The US Army has dramatically accelerated its timeline for fielding Bell's MV-75 tiltrotor, with troops potentially to be ...

The CV-22 Osprey is an aircraft unlike any other in the world of military aviation. Pairing the ability to take off and land like a helicopter with the one of flying like a turboprop aircraft, it has ...

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 ...

The JVX program, long since redesignated the V-22 Osprey, began in fiscal 1982, but this aircraft is really an outgrowth of Bell tiltrotor efforts dating from the late 1940s. The V-22 first flew in ...