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Bell Helicopter Mates V-280 Wing To Fuselage

Pat Host

Monday, May 2nd, 2016

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Bell Helicopter Mates V-280 Wing To Fuselage

Lockheed Martin is developing the avionics panel that will be installed in the V-280. Photo: Defense Daily.

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 Defense Daily Saturday 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 on track for…

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