Bell V-280 Flies 322 MPH, Army Secretary Praises Program

Bell’s V-280 Valor prototype exceeded 280 knots this week, making good on the aircraft’s namesake speed, the company announced this afternoon.

And it’ll fly faster before it’s done, a Bell executive. The news is the latest public triumph for Bell’s tiltrotor technology at a time when its rival for the Army-led Future Vertical Lift program, the Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant, is still in ground testing after repeated delays. And, coincidentally or otherwise, Army Secretary Mark Esper went out of his way this afternoon to praise FVL as a model for Army modernization.

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