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The Bell X-1E, last of the X-1 series, followed by the Bell X-2 Starbuster.
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Bell Model 47 – Serial Number 1 NC-1H crashed on 04/03/46 at the Niagara Falls Airport. Total time on the helicopter was 75.42 hrs. The helicopter was scrapped and serial number 11 was reassigned as NC-1H to contunue with Bell’s marketing program to promote the helicopter.
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The former Curtiss Wright factory on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, New York was on fire today. This historic building was also used by Bell Aircraft and Consolidated Aircraft.
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The Curtiss P-40 WarHawk was designed by Donovan R. Berlin. The Curtiss Buffalo facility produced 13,738 variants of the P-40. The P-40 was the first American aircraft to fight at Pearl Harbor and by war’s end 145 pilots became aces in the P-40.
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Famous Bell Test Pilot Chalmers Slick Goodlin inspecting the Bell XS-1 during final assembly.
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Early helicopter roof top mail delivery.
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On January 5 1949, Capt. Charles Yeager did a ground take off & flew the Bell X-1 to 23,000 feet at a record ascent of 13,000 ft/minute. The first
Larry Bell
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