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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.
A long range precision munition for the Army's aircraft will begin its program of design and development. In the interim, the Army is evaluating the Spike 18–mile range non-line of sight missile on its Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters. [105] On 5 December 2022, the Army announced that the V-280 Valor was selected by the program. [106]
Multipurpose light helicopter Hiller Aircraft: 1948 1950 2000 McCulloch MC-4: Light helicopter McCulloch Aircraft Corporation: Evaluated by the United States Army as the YH-30 and the United States Navy as the XHUM-1. 1948 Never Unknown Sikorsky H-19: Utility helicopter Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation 1949 1950 1102 Vertol H-21: Cargo helicopter
Pages in category "Helicopter components" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Apache Arrowhead; B.
Original Patent filed May 28,1929 Transcendental Model 1-G hovering Bell X-22 A Bell XV-15 prepares to land. The first work in the direction of a tilt-rotor (French "Convertible") seems to have originated ca. 1902 by the French-Swiss brothers Henri and Armand Dufaux, for which they got a patent in February 1904, and made their work public in April 1905.
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According to the RFI, the Army has set a per-unit cost goal of $43 million (in 2018 dollars). [5] The Army envisions combat scenarios where a future scout helicopter being developed under the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program and unmanned drones would control an area or corridor, which would then allow FLRAA to insert troops.
The helicopter division was renamed Bell Helicopter Company and in a few years, with the success of the UH-1 Huey during the Vietnam War, it had established itself as the largest division of Textron. In January 1976, Textron changed the division's name to Bell Helicopter Textron. [4] Bell Helicopter had a close association with AgustaWestland.