Bell Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer that built several types of fighter aircraft for the Second World War but is most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for developing and producing many important civilian and military helicopters. Bell also developed the reaction control system for the Mercury spacecraft, parts of the North American X-15 and the Bell Rocket Belt. The company was bought by Textron in 1960 and lives on as Bell Textron, builder of the Bell 47 and the UH-1 Iroquois.
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was an American aircraft manufacturer
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Bell X-22 (Wikipedia)
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Bell X-14, Wikipedia
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Bell P-59 Airacomet (Wikipedia)
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On the following day, he approached Lawrence Dale Bell, head of Bell Aircraft Corporation, to build a fighter to use it.
Bell XP-77 (Wikipedia)
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The Tri-4 (Company designations, later changed to D-6 ) project with the Bell Aircraft Corporation was initiated in October 1941.
Bell XP-83 (Wikipedia)
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The Bell XP-83 (later redesignated XF-83) was a United States prototype jet escort fighter designed by Bell Aircraft during World War II.
Bell XFL Airabonita (Wikipedia)
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The Bell XFL Airabonita was an American experimental carrier-based interceptor aircraft developed for the United States Navy by Bell Aircraft Corporation of Buffalo, New York.
Bell P-39 Airacobra (Wikipedia)
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The Bell P-39 Airacobra is a fighter produced by Bell Aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
Bell P-63 Kingcobra (Wikipedia)
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The Bell P-63 Kingcobra is an American fighter aircraft that was developed by Bell Aircraft during World War II.
Bell YFM-1 Airacuda (Wikipedia)
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The Bell YFM-1 Airacuda was an American heavy fighter aircraft, developed by the Bell Aircraft Corporation for the United States Army Air Corps during the mid-1930s.
Bell D-188A (Wikipedia)
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In 1955, Bell Aircraft was requested by both the USAF and the US Navy to develop a VTOL/STOVL supersonic, all-weather fighter-bomber and defence interceptor.
Bell Model 65 Air Test Vehicle (Wikipedia)
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The Bell Model 65 Air Test Vehicle (ATV) is an experimental tiltjet VTOL aircraft built by Bell using parts from a number of general aviation aircraft.
Bell X-16 (Wikipedia)
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The Bell Model 67 design was designated the X-16.
Bell XP-52 (source article)
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The Bell XP-52 and subsequent XP-59 were World War II fighter aircraft design projects by the American Bell Aircraft Corporation.
Bell L-39 (Wikipedia)
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the US Navy contracted Bell Aircraft to modify two P-63 Kingcobras as test aircraft for use by NACA
Bell P-76 (Wikipedia)
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The Bell P-76 was the proposed designation for a production model derivative of the XP-39E, a single-engine American fighter aircraft prototype of World War II.
Bell Rocket Belt (Wikipedia)
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Bell Aerosystems began development of a rocket pack which it called the
Wikipedia: Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
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The Bell Aerosystems Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV, nicknamed the Flying Bedstead) was a Project Apollo era program to build a simulator for the Moon landings.
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