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Bell Helicopter Mates V-280 Wing To Fuselage

Wednesday, May 11th, 2016

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ATLANTA--Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT] achieved a major milestone in its V-280 tilt rotor aircraft development on April 21 when it mated the wing to the fuselage.Bell Director of Advanced Tilt Rotor Systems Steve Mathias told sister publication Defense Daily April 30 the production milestone means the company is about 50 percent through the process of building the first V-280, which Bell is developing for the Army’s Joint Multi-Role (JMR) tech demonstrator program. The V-280, in its utility version, is still…

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