Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many experts believe that the ideal aircraft for assault, supply and evacuation will be a "convertiplane": a hybrid that takes off as a helicopter, flies like an airplane, then drifts down to land like a helicopter again. Last April, the Department of Defense announced development contracts for convertiplanes to Bell, Sikorsky and McDonnell Aircraft Corporations. A fourth manufacturer, Gyrodyne Co. of America, which has no contract, claims that its convertiplane is the only model now actually flying...
...Bell's convertiplane will resemble a conventional airplane with helicopter rotors spinning above each wingtip. After it is in the air, the rotors will be tilted 90° forward, thus turning into propellers to fly the craft like an airplane. When the time comes to land, the rotors will return to the helicopter position. Bell believes that the changeover can be accomplished safely and in only a few seconds...
...Bell Aircraft...
...seems strange that a radical much form a background for normal a dents with the old-fashioned idea of bell close to nature, it is not strange to Dartmouth, where the usual would be out of place. Old President Whelk's motto still holds: "The voice of one crying the wilderness." And so far, no one offered to make that a chorus...
...first quarter Saturday, although the Crimson offense looked sharper than heretofore, the game began to develop according to the usual pattern. After an exchange of punts and fumbles put the Cadets on their own 45, quarterback Pete Vann threw a scoring pass to halfback Tom Bell, who was all by himself behind the Crimson secondary. The play, however, was called back because the over-anxious Army backs were in motion...