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Bell Helicopters already had extensive experience with VTOL aircraft and was able to utilize an already developed test mockup. In 1964 the prototype, internally referred to by Bell as Model D2127, was ordered by the Navy and received the X-22 designation. It was unveiled at an event in Niagara Falls in May 1965. [1] [2]
X-1: Bell: USAF, NACA: 1946 High-speed and high-altitude flight First aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. Proved aerodynamic viability of thin wing sections. [10] X-1A X-1B X-1C X-1D: Bell USAF, NACA 1951 High-speed and high-altitude flight X-1E: Bell USAF, NACA 1955 High-speed and high-altitude flight X-2: Bell USAF 1952
Bell X-14: 1957 1 Experimental twin jet engine VTOL aircraft Lunar Landing Research Vehicle: 1964 5 Experimental jet/rocket VTOL aircraft Bell X-22: 1966 2 Experimental four turboshaft engine V/STOL aircraft Bell XP-52: N/A 0 Unbuilt single piston engine fighter Bell X-16: N/A 0 Unbuilt twin jet engine reconnaissance airplane Bell D-188A: N/A 0 ...
On the following day, he approached Lawrence Dale Bell, head of Bell Aircraft Corporation, to build a fighter to utilize it. Bell agreed and set to work on producing three prototypes. As a disinformation tactic, the USAAF gave the project the designation P-59A, to suggest it was a development of the unrelated Bell XP-59 fighter project which ...
Ryan X-13 Vertijet – Tail sitter VTOL jet; Bell X-14 – Thrust vectoring VTOL jet; North American X-15 – Hypersonic rocket-powered research aircraft (Mach 6) Bell X-16 - High-altitude reconnaissance jet; Lockheed X-17 – Research rocket testing high mach re-entry; Hiller X-18 – Tiltwing STOVL cargo aircraft; Curtiss-Wright X-19 – VTOL ...
Bell X-14 (vectored thrust) Bell X-22 ; Bell XV-3 (first tiltrotor) Bell XV-15 (tiltrotor) Bensen B-10 (ducted fan) Boeing/McDonnell Douglas AV-8 Harrier (vectored thrust) Boeing-Vertol VZ-2 ; Boeing X-32B (vectored thrust) Boeing X-50 (stoppable-rotor gyrodyne UAV - failed to achieve forward flight) Boulton Paul P.137 VTOL research aircraft ...
The company focused on the designing and building of fighter aircraft. Their first fighters were the XFM-1 Airacuda, a twin-engine fighter for attacking bombers, and the P-39 Airacobra. The P-59 Airacomet, the first American jet fighter, the P-63 Kingcobra, the successor to the P-39, and the Bell X-1 were also Bell products. [3]
Jack Valentine Woolams (1917–1946) was the senior experimental test pilot and later chief test pilot at Bell Aircraft during the introduction of the P-39, P-63, P-59, and X-1 aircraft. He set a world record for altitude and was the first person to fly a fighter jet non-stop across the United States.