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The Museum will be closed on Easter Sunday. We wish everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday.
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70 years ago on March 8, 1946 The Bell Model 47 Helicopter was certified as the world’s first commercial helicopter.
Visit the museum theater and view historic videos on the development and certification of the Bell Helicopter.
70 Great years of Bell Helicopters
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Visit the museum and see our new F-16 Fighting Falcon honoring the 107th Fighter Squadron from the Niagara Falls Air Base.
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The museum gift shop has in stock a collection of rare Hubbell Prints honoring Jet and Rocket Powered Flight. The set contains 12 beautifully detailed color prints including the Bell P-59A and Bell XS-1. Each set can be had for $75.00. Makes a great gift, put them in your office, hangar, or man cave.
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Bell’s Chief Test Pilot, Jack Woolams at the controls of the first Bell XS-1 Test Flight.
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The X-1-1 was delivered by Bell in December 1945. At the same time, the Army Air Forces asked that NACA personnel oversee the instrumentation and data analysis of the X-1 flights. As a result, an NACA team was incorporated into the program. The first glide flight of the X-1 occurred on Jan. 19, 1946, at Pinecastle Field, FL, by Bell test pilot Jack Woolams. The X-1-1 was air launched from a B-29. Woolams made a total of 10 glide flights to test the X-1’s low-speed handing before it was returned to Bell in March 1946 for installation of the rocket engine. The aircraft was delivered to Muroc in October 1946.
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On January 5, 1945 – Floyd Carlson performed the first helicopter rescue of jet pilot.
Bell test pilot. Jack Woolams, bailed out of a Bell P-59A Airacomet. The roads were closed due to a snow storm and Floyd Carlson flew a doctor in the