HAI HeliExpo Gossip
The enduring question at the HAI HeliExpo was - will there ever be a 609 tilt rotor built and flying, or not?
The rumour is that Bell, having sold all the options for the tiltrotor at a lower price than they can be built for in the present market, cannot afford to actually build a flying machine.
The Pprune threads, based on the differing opinions of Tony Osborne of Shephard Press and Bob Cox of the Star-Telegram work around the apparent indiscretion of Agusta CEO Giuseppi Orsi in telling the assembled press at HeliExpo that Agusta will be taking the programme over from Bell.
According to Shephard Press:
“Orsi said that Bell Helicopter now wanted to divest itself of the civilian tiltrotor project to concentrate on developing its product line. Howeve..., |
