Bell Aircraft

The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer in the United States, which was founded in July 1935 by Larry Bell in Buffalo, New York. The company first specialized in the development and production of a number of combat aircraft ( XFM -1 Airacuda, P-39 Airacobra, P -59 Airacomet, P- 63) and later moved the business focus on the helicopter production.

History

On September 3, 1941 Arthur Young charged the company owner Larry Bell in front of a helicopter drive with stabilizer bar, whereupon Bells company started with the development of helicopters. Already on December 29, 1942 completed the first Bell helicopter, the Bell Model 30 Ship 1 made ​​its first flight.

The Bell Aircraft Corporation moved after the Second World War their business focus on the development and production of helicopters. On March 8, 1946, the Bell 47 became the first civilian helicopter flight approval in the U.S. and in 1955 gave it to the Bell UH -1 and its variants for many years the " standard helicopter " of the U.S. armed forces.

It also provided innovative amounts for aerospace. Below are the Bell X- 1, the first supersonic aircraft, as well as the Reaction Control System of the Mercury capsule. In 1959, Walter Dornberger member of management who has been involved as a General of the Army Ordnance Department in the development of V 2 in the Third Reich. The company was bought in 1960 by Textron and has since been trading under the name of Bell Helicopter.