609 TECHNOLOGY HAS DEEP ROOTS
It might be new to the civil market, but the 609 tiltrotor embodies more than 40 years of pioneering research at Bell, and represents, by the most conservative count, fourth-generation tiltrotor technology. In August 1950, the U.S. Air Force announced a competition aimed at producing a viable VTOL `...
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