AFWERX Revives Flight Test Program For Piasecki’s ARES

Piasecki ARES

Piasecki ARES

Credit: Piasecki
A $37 million contract award by the U.S. Air Force has revived a Piasecki Aircraft program to fly a vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL), multimission aircraft abandoned by DARPA four years ago and evaluate new hydrogen fuel cell technology for a different rotorcraft program. The award from the...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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