Bell Aircraft and Helicopter Designations

[riggerrob]

An article about Arthur Young's early experiments that led to Bell's Model 47 and its tettering rotor.

 

[Apophenia]

An article about Arthur Young's early experiments that led to Bell's Model 47 and its tettering rotor.

Interesting bit of early history on Bell's teetering rotors ... but nary a designation in sight. Maybe better in the Aerospace section?

 

[hesham]

From, Airlifes Helicopters and Rotorcraft,

The Model 249 was allocated twice.

 

[A36Apache]

And finishing this list off...

Sorry for necroing this but, I noticed the P-63F was mentioned as being a French development, would you happen to have a shot of the cover of this document? Thanks.

 

[Maveric]

Has a drawing or three view drawing of the Bell TP.63A-10 advanced fighter trainer appeared in all known magazines, articles or archives?

 

[Apophenia]

Has a drawing or three view drawing of the Bell TP.63A-10 advanced fighter trainer appeared in all known magazines, articles or archives?

Good question Mav. I too would be interested in seeing any 3-view drawings of the TP-63A-10 (Bell Model 38).

According to Joe Baugher, "at least three [TP-63A-10 conversions] were completed in the Soviet Union (42-69304, 42-70503, and 43-11334)" from kits provided by Bell.

Bell TP-63 Kingcobra

Attached is a photo showing a postwar Soviet P-63 UTI conversion (of which, the glazings appear to be identical to P-39 UTI conversion kits provided by Bell). That images comes from a Massimo Tessitori page - Two-seater P-39s.

lendlease

 

[RAP]

I had never seen this version of the Bell 47 before. It is the 47H-I Bellairus. It was an attempt to make an 'executive' version of the 47. Bell covered up and streamlined the airframe. The name Bellairus didn't stick and it was eventually dropped. Only 33 produced. The photos were found online and there is an entire chapter (about 40 pages) on it in the book The Bell 47 Helicopter Story.

 

[hesham]

From NASA report 19720022363,

the Model-627.

 

[Stargazer]

I'm offering here a brand new version of the Bell document originally shared by Orionblamblam on his Unwanted Blog. All lines have been redrawn, all text has been re-created, sticking as much as possible to the font and spacing of the original, imperfections included. I've also added some color to make it more user-friendly. Hope some of you will find it useful!

NOTE: A handful of mysterious designations remain therein:

• NC-1H (for the Bell 47)
• T-40 (for a version of the X-14)
• ADO-12/PH-1 (an undetermined 1962-63 program)