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What Limits The Top Speed Of Many Helicopters & How Does The V-280 Valor Solve It?

Helicopters are incredible machines with amazing capabilities that fixed-wing aircraft do not have. In spite of this, however, helicopters also have limitations — most notably, the maximum speed they ...
Jane's Information Group

Bell V-280 Valor cleared to enter engineering and manufacturing development phase

The V-280 Valor tiltrotor demonstrator, photographed in 2021. The tiltrotor has been cleared to enter its initial manufacturing phase. (Bell Helicopter) The US Army has approved the Bell V-280 Valor ...
Aviation Week

Bell V-280 Reaches 250 Kt. As Flight Testing Relocates

Bell’s V-280 Valor advanced tiltrotor has reached 250 kt. airspeed as it continues to make progress under the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi Role Technology Demonstration (JMR TD), the precursor to the ...
Design News

Bell V-280 Tiltrotor Aircraft Continues Progress Toward Production

Bell Textron and the U.S. Army announced that development of the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft [FLRAA] achieved the acquisition contract’s Milestone B benchmark, indicating that the two-rotor ...
JEC Composites

Spirit AeroSystems completes first Bell V-280 fuselage

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.