The US Army Joint Heavy Lift (JHL) programme needs $60 million to $70 million to survive for two more years until a possible demonstration programme begins in Fiscal 2012. The money is unlikely to be ...

Provisions in the 2006 House defense authorization bill, which would force the Army and the Marine Corps to work together on a common heavy-lift helicopter, could cause friction within the two ...

The U.S. Army has awarded a Bell Helicopter/Boeing team a $3.45 million 18-month contract to perform conceptual design and analysis of its Quad Tiltrotor aircraft for the Joint Heavy Lift program. The ...

CF-1 will be used in future emergency recovery systems testing by the Prototype, Manufacturing and Test Department of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. A CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift ...

HEAVY LIFT: Industry teams and design ideas competing for the proposed U.S. Army focused Joint Heavy Lift (JHL) rotorcraft program are firming up. Lockheed Martin and Karem Aircraft have signed a ...

The US Army has picked five concept vehicles to start exploring the feasibility of developing a vertical take-off and landing rotorcraft that can transport a roughly 20t vehicle about 250nm (460km).

The U.S. Marine Corps has an uncanny way of seeing the future of military aviation long before it arrives. During the 1990s, when the Pentagon was canceling programs right and left due to the collapse ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force is heading a joint study to assess what kinds of aircraft the Pentagon will need in the future to ferry troops and equipment to the battlefield, but a ...