Now Aurora Flight Sciences and Sikorsky move along to phase IB, which will include preliminary design, technology maturation, modeling and simulation, aircraft configuration, and component-level testing. Related: Bell Helicopter debuts Bell V-280 Valor military tiltrotorĪll four companies won contracts earlier this year and late last year for the phase IA portion of DARPA VTOL X-Plane project. companies involved in the DARPA VTOL X-Plane project. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., have awarded a $10.5 million contract to Aurora Flight Sciences, and a $10 million contract to Sikorsky for the phase IB portion of the DARPA Vertical Take-Off and Landing Experimental Plane (VTOL X-Plane) project.Īurora Flight Sciences and Sikorsky are two of four U.S. military research project to design a high-speed vertical takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft as an alternative to today's Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor. in Stratford, Conn., are moving to the next phase of a U.S. Aircraft designers at Aurora Flight Sciences in Manassas, Va., and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.
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