VTOL Aircraft for External Load Operations, Aerial Imaging Aircraft having Attitude Stability During Translation, and Automated Configuration of Mission Specific Aircraft
Bell Helicopter, located in Fort Worth TX, is developing an aircraft operable to transition between thrust-borne lift in a VTOL orientation and wing-borne lift in a biplane orientation.
Bell Helicopter is one of several manufacturers that have partnered with Uber to develop hybrid turbine-electric VTOL aircrafts and the vertiports for this new type of aircraft.
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