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The V-280 made its first flight on 18 December 2017 in Amarillo, Texas. [3] On 5 December 2022, the V-280 was chosen by the US Army as the winner of the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program to replace the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk. [4] [5] As of April 2024, limited user tests are planned for 2027 to 2028 with the first deployment expected ...
In October 2021, Bell and Rolls-Royce jointly announced that the Bell V-280 Valor powerplant would switch from the General Electric T64 turboshaft used on the prototype to a derivative of the 1107C used on the Osprey which would be named the 1107F. At the same time as increasing power from 5,000 to 7,000 horsepower, the 1107C is a known element ...
Bell AH-1 Cobra; Bell AH-1 SeaCobra/SuperCobra; Bell 309 KingCobra - experimental attack helicopter; YAH-63/Model 409 – competitor with the YAH-64 for Advanced Attack Helicopter program; Bell OH-58 Kiowa; H-1 upgrade program. Bell UH-1Y Venom; Bell AH-1Z Viper; Bell CH-146 Griffon; Bell ARH-70 Arapaho - cancelled armed reconnaissance helicopter
The V-280 is unusual in that only the rotor system tilts, but not the engines. The planned demonstrator is medium-size and carries four crew members and 14 troops. It is to be built at 92 percent scale or larger. [29] [33] [34] [35] Bell says they are investing four times the government's amount. [36]
The Transcendental 1-G is the first tiltrotor aircraft to have flown and accomplished most of a helicopter to aircraft transition in flight (to within 10 degrees of true horizontal aircraft flight). Built in 1953, the experimental Bell XV-3 flew until 1966, proving the fundamental soundness of the tiltrotor concept and gathering data about ...
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In mid-2008, the U.S. Army continued the Joint Heavy Lift (JHL) studies with new contracts to the Bell-Boeing and Karem Aircraft/Lockheed Martin teams. The teams were to modify their designs to reach new JHL specifications. JHL became part of the new US Air Force/Army Joint Future Theater Lift (JFTL) program in 2008. [14]
But the V-280 is not meant as a replacement for the Osprey. Might as well compare its specs to that of the Black Hawk. If a comparison table is deemed necessary at all, it would perhaps be better to make a comparison of VTOL aircraft in general (Bell V-15, Bell V-22, Leonardo AW609, V-280, etc.) MichielN 09:42, 11 December 2024 (UTC)