MATING SEASON

Bell Helicopter Textron officials plan to mate the wing and the fuselage of the first Bell Agusta 609 civil tiltrotor late this year, followed by the tiltrotor aircraft's maiden flight in the third quarter of 2001. Bell is scheduled to build six fuselages before shipping tooling for the manufacture...

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