1950's Bell Aircraft Pocket Data for Rocket Designers

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1950's Bell Aircraft Pocket Data for Rocket Designers Rare 84 page booklet, Bell Aircraft gave out to rocket designers. Gold embossed cover, with X1 Rocket Plane, X5 Swept Wing Plane, and Rascal Missile! Very rare and hard to find. Like new condition! Shipping is $3.00 to anywhere in USA. International Shipping is $6.00. I do combine shipping!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 . Bell also developed the Reaction Control System for the Mercury Spacecraft and the Bell Rocket Belt . The company was purchased in 1960 by Textron , and lives on today as Bell Helicopter . Contents [hide ] 1 History 1.1 After World War II 2 Product list 3 See also 4 References History Larry Bell had been an early employee and then later, general manager of the Glenn L. Martin Company , followed by a stint as a manager for Consolidated Aircraft in Buffalo, New York . Consolidated Aircraft moved to 2050 Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo. [1 ] When Consolidated Aircraft moved to San Diego in 1935, Bell stayed behind and established his own company, the Bell Aircraft Company, on 10 July 1935, headquartered in Buffalo.Bell's first military contract followed in 1937 with the development of the ill-fated YFM-1 Airacuda , an unconventional bomber-destroyer powered by two Allison -powered pusher propellers . Only 13 Airacudas were be produced, and these were flown by the USAAF for just three years before being scrapped as useless. Bell Aircraft Corporation assembly factory in Wheatfield, New York, during the 1940s. This unit produced the Bell P-39 Airacobra . Bell enjoyed some success the following year with the development of the single engine P-39 . Putting their previous experience with Allison engines to good use, the P-39 placed the engine in the center of the aircraft, with the propellor driven by a long shaft through which a cannon was also mounted. This fired directly out through the propellor's spinner. Lacking a supercharger or turbocharger, the P-39 performed poorly at high altitudes compared to other fighters of the time, though many P-39s were given to the Soviet Air Force under the Lend Lease Act , where they proved themselves to be an good ground-attack aircraft. This was also demonstrated by a few U.S. Army Air Forces units that flew P-39s, such as the so-called Cactus Air Force on Guadalcanal in 1942 - 43.A somewhat larger and more powerful version of the P-39 was produced shortly before the end of World War II . Called the P-63 Kingcobra , this warplane addressed many of the shortcomings of the P-39, though it was produced too late in the war to make any contribution. Also, by that time, the Army Air Forces already had the superior P-47 Thunderbolt and P-38 Lightning fighter-bombers .The main productive activity that Bell Aircraft had during WW II was as a second or third producer of heavy bombers that had been designed and built by other aircraft companies . This happened at a government-built airplane factory that was constructed near Marietta, Georgia , just northwest of Atlanta . This factory was completed in mid-1943, and Bell Aircraft won contracts to build hundreds of Consolidated B-24 Liberators and Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers at this factory. Then, in mid-1944, the production of the B-24 was consolidated from several different companies (including some in Texas, also) to two large factories: the Consolidated Aircraft Company in San Diego and the Ford Motor Company 's huge factory in Willow Run , next to Detroit, Michigan , which had been specially designed for producing B-24s. Hence, for the rest of WW II, Bell Aircraft concentrated on producing B-29s in Marietta, Ga. The production of the B-29 ended in the fall of 1945. After World War II The aircraft factory in Marietta later be... read more

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