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December 15, 2013

Sikorsky Innovations Awarded Contract For Phase 1 DARPA X-Plane Program

Teams With LMC's Skunk Works On Development Of High-Speed VTOL Aircraft

Sikorsky Innovations has won a contract for Phase 1 of the Vertical Take-Off and Landing Experimental Aircraft (VTOL X-Plane) program by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the company said Thursday. The proposed effort is valued at $15 million to develop the preliminary design for the VTOL X-Plane, a high-speed vertical takeoff-and-landing aircraft with the hover capability of a helicopter.

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