Talk:Bell Aircraft/Archive 1
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P-39 Airacobra Cannon
Can a cannon really be mounted inside of a rotating driveshaft? I would think that there was a gearbox involved. I'll agree with the historicity of the cannon being mounted through the axis of the propeller. (Born2flie 16:44, 12 November 2006 (UTC))
He/she is right. The P-39's engine was mounted upright, behind the pilot, with the crankshaft/driveshaft low enough to pass under the cockpit. The driveshaft drove a gearbox in the nose of the airplane, and the gearbox both reduced prop rpm and stepped the drive up to the aircraft's centerline. The cannon was mounted ahead of the pilot, roughly where the engine would be in a single-engine fighter, and it fired through a hollow propshaft that was part of the gearbox. Nowhere did the cannon fire through "a hollow driveshaft," since the driveshaft ended at the gearbox, where its torque was transmitted by gears to the [hollow] propshaft.173.62.108.108 (talk) 21:00, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Bell aircraft built by other firms
We need to note the fact that many Bell-designed aircraft were produced by other firms because the contracting agency often would not have faith in Bell's production capability. I believe the X-20 was one such design. I'll go through the Dyna-Soar book...I'm pretty sure that the data at the X-20 article is incorrect on this. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 06:53, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Bell Aerospace
The page does not contain any information about the company after its name was changed to Bell Aerospace. As I understand it, Bell Aerospace was separate from Bell Helicopter. One of Bell Aerospace products was the Automatic Aircraft Carrier Landing System (ACLS). This includes the AN/SPN-10, AN/SPN-42 and the AN/SPN-46. The AN/SPN-46 is presently the landing system used by the US Navy. ACLS enables automatic hands off landings aboard the US carriers. Would anyone like to write a short history of the company once its name was changed to Bell Aerospace? -Mikedz 19:44, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Misspelling
Should be Peenemunde (umlaut u), not Peenamunda.173.62.108.108 (talk) 20:46, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
B24s at Marietta?
The page states, "the new plant produced hundreds of Consolidated B-24 Liberators." The sites dedicated to Marietta and the "Bell Bomber" list only B-29s, with a couple of mentions of the P-39 and P-63. The [1] lists Consolidated (San Diego, Fort Worth), Douglas (Tulsa), North American (Dallas/Grand Prairie) and Ford (Willow Run) as manufacturers. The same list can be derived from the variant listings in [2] (Hess, Johnsen, Marshall; MBI Publishing; ISBN 0-7603-0650-8) pp157-161. Eaton's (privately published) [3], in "Company Activities During 1943", p82, states, "Bell Aircraft Corp, entrusted with the design and construction of the first jet-propelled fighter plane in America, produces the YP-59 'Airacomet.' Company also turns out 4,945 P-39 'Airacobras' and 28 'Kingcobra' fighters. Four B-29 'Superfortresses' are delivered from Bell's Marietta, GA, plant." Can someone produce a citation for the B-24 reference?
28 trillion employees?
Really?
Aircraft - P-59 Aircomet missing
Under the "Products" section, the "Aircraft" table doesn't have a listing for the Bell P-59 Airacomet jet aircraft. I can't see any reason for this omission. TGC55 (talk) 11:18, 11 May 2022 (UTC).