FARNBOROUGH—Following the closure of Boeing’s acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems, Bell is expected to look elsewhere for aerostructures work on its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft for the U.S. Army.
Spirit AeroSystems is ramping up its work in the defense industry following Bell Helicopter’s announcement Monday that it selected Spirit to build the fuselage of a prototype tilt-rotor aircraft for ...
Rotorcraft manufacturer Bell has dropped key supplier Spirit AeroSystems from its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) programme, which aims to deliver a next-generation tiltrotor to the US Army ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Last fall, Bell Textron took ...
Bell Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft. Credit: Bell Bell will keep production of the fuselage for its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) in Kansas, announcing Nov. 6 plans to do the work at ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Bell Textron recently took over ...
The Army chose the Bell Helicopter V-280 Valor as its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft in 2022. (Photo courtesy of Bell Textron). Bell Textron will build the U.S. Army’s Future Long Range Assault ...
During the Vietnam War, Bell engineers stripped down the UH-1 Huey, narrowed its fuselage and added a 20 mm cannon to create ...
A key Boeing supplier that makes the fuselages for its popular 737 Max airplanes is laying off about 450 workers. That’s because production has slowed down ever since a panel flew off one of those ...
Spirit’s rapid prototyping facility in Wichita, Kansas, designed and assembled the unit in 22 months. The composite fuselage will ship to Bell’s Amarillo, Texas, facility for final assembly.
FARNBOROUGH, England, July 24 (Reuters) - Textron (TXT.N), opens new tab is close to acquiring the fuselage-making program for its V-280 military aircraft from Spirit AeroSystems (SPR.N), opens new ...