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The Leonardo AW609, formerly the AgustaWestland AW609, and originally the Bell-Agusta BA609, is a twin-engined tiltrotor VTOL aircraft with an overall configuration similar to that of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey. It is capable of landing vertically like a helicopter while having a range and speed in excess of conventional rotorcraft.
Bell Agusta Aerospace Company (BAAC) was a joint venture formed in 1998 by Bell Helicopter and Agusta (now AgustaWestland), who collaborated on a variety of products dating back to 1952. The joint venture was dissolved in 2011, when AgustaWestland took full ownership of the project, renaming it as the AgustaWestland Tilt-Rotor Company ( AWTRC ).
The resulting AgustaWestland AW609 is the first civilian tiltrotor. [2] [3] In 2000, AgustaWestland began studies for the Next-Generation Civil Tiltrotor (NGCTR), twice the size of the AW609. [4] In August 2014, the European Union launched its CleanSky 2 research initiative, to award contracts advancing aerospace technology. [5]
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Both XV-15s were flown actively throughout the 1980s testing aerodynamics and tiltrotor applications for civilian and military aircraft types that might follow. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale classifies the XV-15 as a Rotodyne, and as such it holds the speed record of 456 kilometres per hour (283 mph), [ 5 ] and the 3 km [ 6 ...
Bell 65 ATV ; Bell/Agusta BA609 (tiltrotor), presently known as AgustaWestland AW609; Bell Boeing Quad TiltRotor (proposal) Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey ; Bell Eagle Eye (tiltrotor UAV) Bell V-280 Valor ; Bell X-14 (vectored thrust) Bell X-22 ; Bell XV-3 (first tiltrotor) Bell XV-15 (tiltrotor) Bensen B-10 (ducted fan)
The Bell V-280 Valor is a tiltrotor aircraft being developed by Bell Helicopter for the United States Army's Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program. [2] The aircraft was officially unveiled at the 2013 Army Aviation Association of America's (AAAA) Annual Professional Forum and Exposition in Fort Worth, Texas.
Bell teamed with Boeing in developing a commercial tiltrotor, but Boeing went out in 1998 and Agusta came in for the Bell/Agusta BA609. [9] [10] This aircraft was redesignated as the AW609 following the transfer of full ownership to AgustaWestland in 2011. [11] Bell has also developed a tiltrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the TR918 Eagle Eye.