Bell Aircraft

Bell YFM-1 Airacuda 1937 Embodying many innovatory features and designed by Robert J Woods, the FM-1 Airacuda was a five-seat long-range ... read more ... In 1938 Bell Aircraft produced the Airacobra single-seat fighter featuring a tricycle landing gear, a ... read more ... Bell P-39 Airacobra 1939 Bell XFL-1 Airabonita 1940 read more ... The Airacomet was the first American-designed and built turbojet fighter. It first flew in prototype ... read more ... Bell P-59 Airacomet 1942 Bell P-63 Kingcobra 1942 At a fairly early stage in the development of the Bell P-39 Airacobra, work had ... read more ... The Bell XP-77, an all-wood light-weight fighter made from Sitka spruce, patterned after racers of ... read more ... Bell XP-77 1944 Bell XP-83 1945 The XP-83 was the final contribution by the Bell firm to the US Air Force ... read more ... Three X-1 were built to investigate flight problems at supersonic speed. The type was first ... read more ... Bell X-1 1946 Bell L-39 1946 On 17 May, 1946, Bell Aircraft announced that 'experimentation with the use of sweptback wings ... read more ... First flown on 20 June 1951, the X-5 was built to investigate the aerodynamic effects ... read more ... Bell X-5 1951 Bell X-2 1952 Two X-2 rocket-powered research aircraft built to explore the problems of transonic and supersonic ... read more ... Bell showed interest in VTOL aeroplanes as early as the early 1940s. In January 1941, ... read more ... Bell Model 65 ATV 1954 Bell Model 68 X-14 1957 Although the ATV had never completed a full transition, it was considered a successful ... read more ...