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'Sports-car' Performance Promised for Bell V-280

The third-generation tiltrotor takes lessons learned from the V-22 as it prepares for first flight in 2017.

Designed to carry 11 fully outfitted troops, the developmental Bell V-280 tiltrotor is expected to fly up to 800 nm at 280 knots. Unlike the current V-22 Osprey, only gearboxes and prop-rotors rotate upward for helicopter mode. First flight is scheduled for 2017.

By Mark Huber • Contributor

February 27, 2015

Textron’s Bell Helicopter unit is pushing on with the development of its third-generation tiltrotor, the V-280 Valor, following an official program award from the Army’s Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD) last year. The agreement is part of the Department of Defense’s broader Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative. While Bell prepares the V-280 for first flight in 2017, Textron sister company TRU Simulation + Training is providing a cockpit “marketing simulator” that aviators are expected to be able to access at the Army Aviation Association of America (Quad-A) conference later this month (March 29-31) in Nashville.

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