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Bell Unveils V-247 Autonomous Tiltrotor and It’s the Size of a Huey

Tuesday, September 25th, 2018

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Bell Unveils V-247 Autonomous Tiltrotor and It’s the Size of a Huey

The Bell V-247 autonomous tiltrotor was unveiled at Modern Day Marine, Sept. 25, 2018. (Photo by Dan Parsons)

Bell [TXT] unveiled the full-size mockup of its V-247 autonomous tiltrotor Sept. 25, and it is much larger than a scale-model suggests.Just outside the company’s booth at the Modern Day Marine in Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, passersby kept up an audible chorus of surprise as each caught a first glimpse of the unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which is about the size of a UH-1Y Huey. It was designed that way for several reasons, Todd Worden, Bell’s senior manager for advanced…

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