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	LFV Bell
		Bell Aerosystems designed a rocket-propelled Lunar Flying Vehicle (LFV) to aid Apollo astronauts in their exploration of the moon.
		Bell Aerosystems Company announced that it had designed a rocket-propelled Lunar Flying Vehicle (LFV) to aid Apollo astronauts in their exploration of the moon.
		Bell announced also that it had received additional funds from NASA (almost a half million dollars) to continue work on another lunar vehicle, the so-called Manned Flying System.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/lfvbell.htm (270 words)

	Model 30-the FIRST Bell Helicopter
		Bell pioneered skid landing gear for helicopters which were comprised of tubular skids attached to legs and straight (later arched) cross tubes, which, in turn, attached to the fuselage.
		When the CAA granted Bell the first NC license for float-equipped helicopters on 5 October 1946, it was expected that the Model 47 would be used in Canadian bush country for geophysical survey work.
		Bell Aerosystems remained responsible for fixed-wing aircraft construction, powerplant, electronics and defense systems (among other contracts the company carried out experimental vertical flights with the tilting-duct VTOL X-22 it had built), while ali work on rotorcraft continued to be carried out by Bell Helicopter at FortWorth.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Bell-Model30/model-30.php (1280 words)

	Apollo LLRV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bell had independently conceived a similar, free-flying simulator, and out of this study came the NASA Headquarters' endorsement of the LLRV concept, resulting in a $3.6 million production contract awarded to Bell for delivery of the first of two vehicles for flight studies at the FRC within 14 months.
		Bell Aerosystems Company completed the first of two lunar landing research vehicles, to be delivered to the NASA Flight Research Center for testing.
		Bell Aerosystems Company reported that a study had been made to determine if it were practical to significantly increase simulation time without major changes to the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV).
	www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/craft/apoollrv.htm (4743 words)

	Bell Aircraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer of the United States, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters.
		Perhaps Bell Aircraft's most important contributuion to the history of fixed wing aircraft development would be the X-1, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier.
		Lawrence Bell died in 1956, and for several years afterwards the company was in financial difficulty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bell_Aircraft_Corporation (536 words)

	Bell Rocket Belt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Astrogeologist Gene Shoemaker wearing a Bell rocket belt while training astronauts.
		The army spent $150,000 on the Bell Aerosystems contract.
		Bell Pogo - a two-man flying platform based on the Bell Rocket Belt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bell_Rocket_Belt (2852 words)

	LM Ascent Propulsion
		Bell Aerosystems tested a pressure transducer for the LEM's ascent propulsion system (the first time such a device was ever used with hypergolic fuels).
		Bell Aerosystems reported on stability and ablative compatibility testing of the first bipropellant-cooled injector baffle for the ascent engine of the LEM.
		Bell engineers were assessing the amount of requalification testing that would be required and continued their testing on reworked engines, seeking to find the cause of previous engine instabilities.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/lmalsion.htm (7159 words)

	Motor Transport Corps
		The air cushioned vehicle (ACV) was developed by Bell Aerosystems in the late 1950s.
		Bell first developed the US Navy's Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle (PACV “Swift Boat”) based on a modified British design SR-N5.
		The Army worked with Bell to develop it's own version of the ACV in February 1968.
	www.transchool.eustis.army.mil /Museum/ACVSK-5.htm (952 words)

	Rocket man Flight Journal - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Meanwhile, Bell Aerosystems, under the direction of Bell X-1 rocket-propulsion engineer and inventor Wendell F. Moore, used company funds to design and build a nitrogen gas rig specifically for investigating tethered SRLD flights.
		The first Bell Aerosystems Rocket Belt consisted of a fiberglass harness to fit the pilot, propellant supply tanks, gas generator, throttle-control assembly, nozzle deflection cables and hot-gas tube nozzles.
		One of Bell's own rocket-testing engineers, Harold Graham, had been chosen as the pilot for all the tethered flights, and he was prepared to make history with the first free flight.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3897/is_200106/ai_n8959435 (884 words)

	NASM Space Artifacts: Rocket Belt
		However, the 20 + second duration of the rocket fuel required for the belt was found to be too short-lived for the device to be practical and the idea was abandoned.
		The Army negotiated with Bell for the fabrication of the SRLD and a contract was awarded to the Army's Transportation, Research and Engineering Command (TRECOM) for military feasibility studies and trials.
		In January, 1970, a license to sell and manufacture the Bell Jet Belt was granted by Bell Aerospace Textron to Williams International (formerly Williams Research Corp.) of Walled Lake, Michigan.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/dsh/artifacts/RM-RocketBelt.htm (1149 words)

	Bell Hall Profile
		Lawrence D. Bell (1894-1956) developed the Bell Helicopter and founded Bell Aerosystems.
		In 1944 Lawrence Bell received the Daniel Guggenheim Medal for "achievement in design and construction of military aircraft and for outstanding contributions to the method of construction".
		The Bell Foundation provides an endowed chair in his name in the Department of Philosophy and a general purpose fund in the School of Engineering.
	wings.buffalo.edu /services/fac/fpd/bldgs/north/bell/bell.htm (131 words)

	Imperfect Ideas
		Bell's highly successful and unique Rocket and Jet Belts resulted from an original idea said to have been first drawn out in the desert sand near Edwards Air Force Base by Bell Aerosystems' engineer Wendell Moore, in 1953.
		Such was the potential of the system, however, that the U S Army contracted Bell to develop a Jet Belt, which used a Williams Research Corporation WR-19 turbojet engine in place of the rocket motor.
		After 1969, Bell and Williams went on to develop two-person flying platforms that were so stable the crew only had to lean in the direction they wanted to fly, thereby requiring just thrust control.
	flatrock.org.nz /topics/flying/jet_belt.htm (1432 words)

	Canceled Flight
		From top: the WASP II; the Bell Aerosystems Rocket Belt; the pogo, also by Bell Aerosystems; Sean Connery as James Bond in the 1965 film "Thunderball," the apogee of jetpack chic.
		In 1968 Bell, in collaboration with the Michigan-based contractor Williams Research Corporation, unveiled the Jet Belt, which used a miniature kerosene-powered jet engine.
		The museum owns the Bell Aerosystems Rocket Belt No. 2, which is slated for display at the Dulles Center, in conjunction with the Smithsonian, scheduled to open in the year 2003.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/magazine/home/20000611mag-phenomenon.html (1298 words)

	Flying contraptions for one
		At the time, he happened to be the 19-year-old neighbour of a man named Wendell Moore of Bell AeroSystems in Niagara Falls, New York - a leader in small rocketry technologies.
		The Bell Rocket Belt, as it was called, was the device that Suitor first began flying with an 'in-air' time limit of 21 seconds.
		Bell itself, later in the sixties, developed a Jet Belt that could fly for 20 minutes instead of 20 seconds and was powered by a jet engine and not a rocket.
	www.exn.ca /FlightDeck/News/story.cfm?ID=19990512-55 (994 words)

	Unreal Aircraft - Q Branch - Bell Rocket Belts
		In about 1962 or 1963, Wendell F. Moore, an employee of Bell Aerosystems, in the US, worked on a personal flight system which became know as the Rocket Belt.
		The Bell Rocket Belt is powered by a hydrogen peroxide reaction rocket engine which consists of a tank of compressed liquid nitrogen which pushes hydrogen peroxide out of two other tanks into a reaction chamber.
		It is essentially similar to the Bell model but is able to fly 30 seconds, against the Bell's 20 seconds.
	www.unrealaircraft.com /qbranch/bell_rb.php (529 words)

	Bell Service Pins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Note the different placement of the number of years represented from the Bell Aircraft version.
		Set of 5 and 10 year Bell Helicopter pins, and 15, 20, and 25 year Textron pins.
		Set of a Bell Aircraft 5 year pin and two Bell Aerosystems pins.
	www.xb-70.com /hobby/bell_pins (146 words)

	REACTION CONTROL
		The propellant tanks (two fuel and two oxidizer) are located on the inside of the structural panel; feed lines are routed through the panel to the engines.
		The propellant tanks are produced by Bell Aerosystems Co., Buffalo, NY., a division of Textron, Inc.
		Primary Fuel Tanks (Bell Aerosystems Co., Buffalo, N.Y. There are four cylindrical titanium tanks with domed ends, one tank for each quad of engines.
	www.apollosaturn.com /asnr/p147-158.htm (5172 words)

	Motor Transport Corps
		In 1959, the Army contracted Aerojet-General to conduct feasibility studies on a Rocket Belt, and contracted Bell Aerosystems to develop a Small Rocket Lift Device (SRLD).
		Wendell Moore was named Bell's Technical Director for the project.
		Moore flew the initial tethered flights at the Bell plant in Buffalo, NY, until he injured his knee and Harold Graham took over.
	www.transchool.eustis.army.mil /Museum/Jetbelt.htm (422 words)

	LLRV ECN-453: Pilot Joe Walker in Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) on ramp
		Simultaneously, and independently, Bell Aerosystems Company, Buffalo, N.Y., a company with experience in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, had conceived a similar free-flying simulator and proposed their concept to NASA headquarters.
		The challenge was; to allow a pilot to make a vertical landing on Earth in a simulated moon environment, one sixth of the Earth's gravity and with totally transparent aerodynamic forces in a "free flight" vehicle with no tether forces acting on it.
		The two LLRVs were shipped disassembled from Bell to the FRC in April 1964, with program emphasis placed on vehicle No. 1.
	www.dfrc.nasa.gov /gallery/Photo/LLRV/HTML/ECN-453.html (704 words)

	LLRV, Lunar Landing Research Vehicles
		Bell had independently conceived a similar, free-flying simulator, and out of this study came the NASA Headquarters' endorsement of the LLRV concept, resulting in a $3.6 million production contract awarded to Bell on Feb. 1, 1963, for delivery of the first of two vehicles for flight studies at the FRC within 14 months.
		Built of aluminum alloy trusses and shaped like a giant four-legged bedstead, the vehicle was to simulate a lunar landing profile.
		NASA had accumulated enough data from the LLRV flight program at the FRC by mid-1966 to give Bell a contract to deliver three LLTVs at a cost of $2.5 million each.
	area51specialprojects.com /llrv.html (1019 words)

	Bell Rocket Belt
		The contraption was not very stable and it was during one of these flights a cable snapped, and Moore came downward, injuring his knee-cap and permanently grounding him.
		A young engineer at Bell, Harold Graham, took over as test pilot and on 20 April, 1961 the craft made its first outdoor tether free flight.
		After Moore's death Bell Aerospace canceled all engagements of the rocket belt and retired the two that existed.
	www.internetage.com /rotorcraft/bell_rb/rocket_belt.html (1165 words)

	Street Tech
		Next to the taxiway of the Niagara Falls Airport, engineers from Bell Aerosystems have set up equipment for an altogether new kind of flight.
		Originally conceived in 1953 by a wildly inventive Bell engineer named Wendell F. Moore, the rocket belt was part of an Army contract to create a "small rocket lifting device" that could improve soldier mobility and maneuverability.
		Four copies of the original Bell belt were made.
	www.streettech.com /print.php?sid=1126 (558 words)

	UB Buildings: Bell Hall
		Bell Hall is a major engineering hub on UB's North Campus; the facility houses the Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Industrial Engineering.
		To support cutting-edge programs like industrial engineering, Bell Hall contains space for man-machine systems and human-factors research—tools used for the design of products and working environments that are more suitable for human labor.
		Developer of the Bell Helicopter and founder of Bell Aerosystems, Lawrence D. Bell (1894-1956) was known as "the dean of American aviation executives." In addition to the building, he is honored through a general-purpose fund in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
	www.buffalo.edu /buildings/building?id=BELL (158 words)

	Chariots For Apollo, ch6-5
		The lander had 18 engines: 2 large rockets, one for descent to the moon and another for return to lunar orbit, and 16 small attitude control engines clustered in quads and pointing up, down, left, and right, around the ascent stage.
		During the spring of 1963, Grumman hired Bell to develop the ascent engine, basing the selection on Bell's experience in Air Force Agena development and hoping that the technology from that program might be applicable to the lunar module.
		Grumman placed heavy emphasis upon high reliability through simplicity of design, and, in fact, the ascent engine did emerge as the least complicated of the three main engines in the Apollo space vehicle (the descent and service module engines were the other two).
	www.solarviews.com /history/SP-4205/ch6-5.html (2184 words)

	TIME.com: Beer Barrels Aloft -- Jun. 4, 1965 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The odd, ungainly craft rolled out by Bell Aerosystems last week looked like a collection of outsize beer barrels draped over a discarded boxcar.
		Bell's contribution to the roster of V/STOL (Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing) airplanes.
		The ducted 7-ft. fans that the X-22A uses as props are a futuristic blend of modern metallurgy and plastic engineering—fiber-glass blades with steel cores and nickel edges.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,898363,00.html (452 words)

	LLRV index: Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) Photo Gallery Contact Sheet
		After conceptual planning and meetings with engineers from Bell the NASA FRC Issued Bell a $50,000 study contract in December 1961.
		Wayne Ottinger, from FRC Flight Operations, was the NASA resident representative at Bell during this period.
		Built of tubular aluminum like a giant four-legged bedstead, the vehicle was to simulate a lunar landing profile from around 1500 feet to the moon's surface.
	www.dfrc.nasa.gov /Gallery/Photo/LLRV/HTML/index.html (1237 words)

	Bell Aerospace Canada Voyageur
		Although Bell Aerosystems denied that it happened, the first two Voyageurs were assembled from scavenged Bell SK-5's.
		Unfortunately, this saw the withdrawal of Bell Aerospace in Canada as they moved their facilities virtually overnight to New Orleans.
		Army suggests that in fact it was the US Army that first obtained hovercraft from Bell Areospace.
	hovercraftclubcanada.tripod.com /builders/bell/voyageur.htm (456 words)

	Rocket Belts of Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana
		The idea of a workable rocket belt is credited to Wendell Moore, an engineer working at Bell Aerosystems.
		The Army negotiated with Bell for the fabrication of the SRLD (small rocket lifting device) and a contract was awarded to the Army's Transportation, Research and Engineering Command (TRECOM) for military feasibility studies and trials.
		Harold Graham, was the first pilot in the world to perform a rocket belt free flight, on April 20, 1961.
	www.tecaeromex.com /ingles/RB-i.htm (769 words)

	Lockport Union-Sun & Journal Online - Falls flight of fancy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Technology first developed 49 years ago at Bell Aerosystems in Niagara Falls returned to the Cataract City this weekend for a convention of more than one hundred rocketbelt pilots, writers and engineers.
		The pinnacle of the convention was a 30-second demonstration of the rocketbelt — a hydrogen peroxide rocket that straps onto a person’s back and propels him into the air.
		Nelson Tyler, a rocketbelt builder who developed one of the first packs outside of Bell, said corporations that develop large jet engineers are unwilling to spend money on the development of jet packs that may not have a large market.
	www.lockportjournal.com /local/local_story_266222157.html (490 words)

	TIME.com: Leap, Eat & Die -- Jun. 16, 1961 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		¶ At Fort Eustace, Va. a helmeted engineer from Bell Aerosystems Co. leaped a truck with a "rocket belt." With 100 lbs.
		The Army, which is paying for Bell's Rocket Belt, is still uncertain about its military value on earth, but Bell spokesmen see a grand future for it when the U.S. has colonized the moon, where gravitation has only one-sixth of its strength on earth.
		In fact, a Bell man cautioned, they will have to be careful not to send themselves accidentally into lunar orbit.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,895388,00.html (635 words)

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