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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.
The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters.
Bell announced its new project after the Bell 429 and Bell V-22, the super medium Bell 525, previously it was known as Project X or Magellan. The Helicopter is overall designed for trips of 50 to 500 nautical miles, and has a 5-blade main rotor powered by twin engines, digital controls and Garmin G5000H screen, with planned seating for 16-20 people. [3]
At the time there were 45 aircraft based at this airport: 21 single-engine, 15 multi-engine, 8 jet and 1 helicopter. [2] International Aerospace Coatings has an aircraft painting facility located on the airport; Bell Textron assembly plant located here; many American Airlines and United Airlines jetliners are painted there.
The Bell XV-3 (Bell 200) is an American tiltrotor aircraft developed by Bell Helicopter for a joint research program between the United States Air Force and the United States Army in order to explore convertiplane technologies. The XV-3 featured an engine mounted in the fuselage with driveshafts transferring power to two-bladed rotor assemblies ...
Huge news for Fort Worth: The Army chose Bell Textron over Lockheed Martin and others to develop the next generation of combat aircraft, based on Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor.
Bell Helicopter Textron landed a sizable Pentagon contract in support of two U.S. allies Tuesday. Specifically, Textron was awarded a foreign military sales contract worth up to $85.4 million to ...
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