Rotor

Bell steps back from tiltrotors for
military armed scouts
Bell recently surprised the global defence industries by announcing after spending much of the past decade developing tiltrotor aircraft for the US military, they were returning to a traditional helicopter design for armed reconnaissance missions.

Existing commercial technology was being used to reduce the cost of the proposed Bell 360 Invictus. “If you need … and can afford a Corvette, do you go buy a Ferrari,” Jeffrey Schloesser, Bell’s executive vice president of strategic pursuits, said recently. “This is not a truck, it is a high-speed, agile aircraft at an affordable price meeting all the requirements from the US Army.”