The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has assigned the designation X-76 to its high-speed vertical takeoff and ...

Speed is usually sold as the ultimate advantage in air combat, the quality that lets a fighter jet sprint through danger and vanish before an enemy can react. Yet the faster an aircraft moves, the ...

There's a new X-plane in town. Bell Textron's tilt-rotor aircraft being built for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program, which aims to combine the features of a helicopter ...

A consultant for the Woodland Bottoms jet sprint boat race believes he will be able to overcome concerns about noise from the track. "I think the neighbors are far enough away that they are below the ...

The river may be wild but the field is where the boat racing action is slated to happen this summer. Organizers hope to bring more than 7,000 spectators to two Linn County jet sprint boat race events ...