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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After surviving both a budget freeze by the US Navy and a termination threat by lawmakers, the US Marine Corps has been approved to start the $4.2 billion development phase for the Heavy Lift ...

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 ...