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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: endicom on December 19, 2017, 01:39:55 am

Title: Bell V-280 Valor Next-Generation Tilt-Rotor Aircraft Prototype Has Just Made Its First Flight
Post by: endicom on December 19, 2017, 01:39:55 am

The Aviationist
David Cenciotti
Dec. 18, 2017

(https://theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/V-280-Valor-first-flight.jpg)

On Dec. 18, the first prototype of the V-280 Valor, registration N280BH, performed its first flight at Bell Helicopter Amarillo Assembly Center.

Interestingly, both the images and the footage released by Bell Helicopter have been doctored to hide some details of the Valor’s T64-GE-419 tilting gearbox design: unlike the V-22‘s engines that rotate along with the gearboxes, in the V-280, the gearbox is the only thing that rotates.

Anyway, the gearbox is clearly visible in the images we have published on Aug. 30.

More... https://theaviationist.com/2017/12/18/bell-v-280-valor-next-generation-tilt-rotor-aircraft-prototype-has-just-made-its-first-flight/