DARPA To Develop High-Speed, Runway-Independent Prototype

A DARPA slide presented March 1 shows concepts for an upcoming high-speed, runway-independent prototype program. 

Credit: Brian Everstine/Aviation Week
FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida—DARPA will start a new program aimed at high-speed, runway-independent aircraft—a program that coincides with multiple other Pentagon efforts looking at future mobility concepts. DARPA Director Stephanie Tomkins says the program—Speed and Runway Independent Technologies...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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