Arthur Young testing a early Bell Helicopter
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Curtiss P-36A Hawk
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Project Officer for Fighters, Captain Ben Kelsey tested a great number of aircraft models, possibly flying more new types of US fighters than any other pilot. He was first to fly the Bell twin-Allison XFM-1 Airacuda prototype on September 1, 1937 and the Bell XP-39. Captain Kelsey is exiting a Curtiss P-36 A at Wright Field.
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Larry Bell Interview
Lawrence D. Bell, founder of the Bell Aircraft Corporation
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Consolidated Aircraft P2Y-2 US Navy Seaplane – 1933
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Curtiss P-40 – A great Buffalo, New York aircraft.
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Historic P-39 returns home!
An amazing piece of history has returned home. The Bell P-39, the Miss Lend Lease,was built in the Bell Aircraft factory in Wheatfield, New York, in