Bell Completes High-Speed VTOL Stop-Fold Rotor Sled Test

With the rotor stopped, the blades are stowed in the sled test at Holloman.

Credit: Bell
Bell has completed sled tests of the stop/fold rotor concept for a high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) X-plane being designed under a DARPA competition. The sled test on the Holloman High Speed Test Track at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, demonstrated the folding rotor, multimode propulsion...
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