CW2 William Bogert, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, examines the cockpit of the Bell Joint Multi-Role Technology aircraft. Soldiers visited businesses to provide feedback to help inform future ...

Manufacturers have concentrated R&D resources to perfecting the performance characteristics of vertical lift skid-steer and compact track loaders (CTLs). In many cases, this has resulted in increased ...

The U.S. military’s vertical lift fleet of helicopters and tiltrotors is aging. With the exception of V-22 Osprey, no completely new aircraft designs have been introduced since the 1980s. Even the ...

NASA is continuing its support of university research into technologies for future helicopters and other vertical lift aircraft in partnership with the U.S. Army and Navy. With their unique ability to ...

WASHINGTON -- All four of Future Vertical Lift’s signature modernization efforts now have approved requirements, as the Army strives to rapidly develop new aircraft to achieve overmatch, its leader ...

Senior Army leaders are now advancing and refining plans to speed up development and delivery of a new faster, more-lethal and high-tech Future Vertical Lift aircraft currently slated to be ...

In our last paper, we discussed the current state of the U.S. vertical lift fleet and how past investment decisions helped shape this fleet. This brief will focus on future investments. Vertical lift ...