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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 20, 2020 19:49:46 GMT -5
Being a certified card-carrying aviation freak, I really enjoyed this documentary on the history of the development of the helicopter in the U.S., and how the technology found its way to Bell Aircraft in the early 1940s. This video is particularly interesting because it is narrated by one of the guys who was heavily involved in the project at the time.
The scene in here where the pilot is thrown from the tethered craft I had seen before...but I did not know the back story on that until now.
Fascinating stuff!
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Post by De ville on Jan 20, 2020 20:33:40 GMT -5
That was cool! Thanks, I'll send that on to my Dad.
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Post by Ragic on Jan 20, 2020 23:38:22 GMT -5
I live 10 minutes from the Bell Aerospace building in Wheatfield / Niagara Falls NY |
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 20, 2020 23:51:15 GMT -5
WAAAAy cool!
The building is still there? wow.
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Post by Ragic on Jan 21, 2020 0:00:40 GMT -5
The Bell X1 was built at this factory too! The Bell X-1 was designed and built at the company's Wheatfield plant, with some of the work done in secret at Buffalo's old Trico building on Main Street. Yeager made the historic flight over Edwards Air Force Base in California on November 14th 1947. Attachments:
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Post by Ragic on Jan 21, 2020 0:04:02 GMT -5
WAAAAy cool! The building is still there? wow. Yep, I pass by it several times a week. It it right next to the Niagara Falls Airport and shares the runway with the Niagara Falls Air Force base. |
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