V-22 Program, Bell Confident in Osprey Manufacturing Capability

By Jason Ma / June 16, 2005 at 5:00 AM
PARIS -- The V-22 program office and Bell Helicopter are confident in the company's ability to manufacture V-22s while concurrently juggling other helicopter programs, such as the VXX presidential transport and the H-1 series. Bell has teamed with Boeing to build the V-22, a tiltrotor aircraft that takes off like a helicopter and rotates it nacelles to fly like a plane. Boeing builds the fuselage in Pennsylvania. Bell builds the wings and nacelles in Amarillo, TX. Bell then assembles those...

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