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Growth, Growth, GrowthIs Bell’s Story For 1963Gr wrh, Growth, Growth,Tillr war - ir thrc c w rdr * thlt; 't '-ry of the Textron's | Hell Uelic-'pter f mpar.y ir* thlt; y* ir ** G.Sever 11 event-' punc tuated i Bell’- tr» t let is growthlast year,* pmpl y c-t rliitihed r m* all-tune hi 4 fin Oiastyeir.Hicy rce ive 1 t rec rd -; hr.- T ng H ' , V 7 c r, -tr net f r m Htior il hi 1-1B and ’*11-11 • Ir q ;ei * helicopter', Hit' c ntract ip one of the large-t in f el 1*? history fine- in vi: g t Texas in v 11.11 and is th. largest inr ’tary-wir.g hi*t ry,1 -n tin alia 1 ly that the $10- milli r 1 liar contract was received pell delivered , the largest ne- ::»y Pi mover* of helicopter * ir, the history ^ of r tary-wir * iviation. They r delivered 1'* helicopter'* to the P Army.* In addition a tv - tory, 51 ,-; 0 square-f1 tresearch andengineering labor itory h sild-- ing was under construction at the Hurst Plant end would he* completed hy the spring of \ thi year,Another ign T growth at I Bell was e -• square-* r -f t ■;1 itior. to the main Hurst pi int. The Richland ffills wire1, me was enlarged hy 4, quire feet, A new v. ir. o it the Hurst plant w o c a picte l and occupied, \\ tl the completion of the engPvering and research hull h: - thi -pring, Bell will hav. c'tiruted 1,165,000 'uu ir. ft • t f enclosed oper-iti-.' ; tc- T if rant f ’unty, thrr figures included in that figure ire the Globe plant it Blue ‘' ■ :nd, f ustomerSer-vici P Tiding at Hurst, Pent f i c 11 i ty ne ir Fort Worth 5 tocky ir els, G r c a t er South -west International \irport fa-c i 1 i T i e ', ( arrlher c' f fict building at Hurst and Bfnyon 'Keefe record storage «pace and rc-earch facilities leased from Great Southwest( or-poratlon.Hie new research and engineering building will house the mechanical, instrumcnta-ti n, chemical and process, methods and materials research and metallurgical lab-r *t rie. General accounting, timekeeping, payroll, audit, eicctr mics and Ther en-gineering ffice* will occupy the ' *c nd floor. The building will be r nnpletcly air-rundlttoned and will contain facilities as Rood as those ijfany industrial laboratory in the country, »cc rdirg t T 11 officials.The addition to t h e main Hurst plant has occupied since earlyFeptei. her, 116.1 and house-Pell’s b id-ing ir.d metal r tor blade -m jr.ufacturfng f icllities.Here time giving cranes handle the Made- in their manufa tire, \ room in which blade- are bal»need so precisely that a fly on the rotor tip would throw the blade's balance off bar a temperature cor.tr 1 -ystern so sensitive that it will allow only a two-degree variation.An all-weather loading dock is equipped with dock lcvelers - automatic - adjusting ramps that follow i truck up as it rises with unloading.Bell maintains a research Laboratory in the Greater Southwest Industrial District for experimental tests with models of rotorcraft or their components.According to pell rest irch at this facility’ contributes significantly to the sol itlons.. pense of full-size hellccp-’ r , :.r . _ r components#rent pr Victl-n hellc pters. ..ddftl -n. the validity ofNT GTH JrC. HP I oompiitcr pr 'grams that prc-’jated and developed with scale :KbchiV*lor%in be estab.models: This way the eng - h h d ,ncer Can explore his ideas irminiature without going to th-■ LICOPTl-R FOR TR LEATHERr^UsT^'c^ jfc-sESiscntijllv the* sjme .in ct . The*ed I’ll-ID in producti.'.i flt;* »v # # w
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Arlington Daily News Texan
Arlington, Texas, US
Sun, Feb 23, 1964
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