[Bell employees working on parts for the XH-40]

Photograph of Bell Helicopter employees working on various parts for the XH-40 helicopter in the Bell plant.
Date: August 6, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[The Lycoming turbine engine being hoisted to the top of XH-40 #1]

Photograph of the Lycoming turbine engine being hoisted up to the top of the XH-40 #1.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Bell employees working on the XH-40]

Photograph of Bell Helicopter employees working on the XH-40.
Date: August 24, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Bell employees working on parts to the XH-40]

Photograph of Bell Helicopter employees working on parts for the XH-40.
Date: August 24, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Bell employees working on the fuselage of an XH-40]

Photograph of Bell employees working on the fuselage of an XH-40 helicopter.
Date: August 24, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[The Lycoming turbine engine being hoisted to the top of XH-40 #1]

Photograph of the Lycoming turbine engine being hoisted up to the top of the XH-40 #1.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Main rotor hub and blade assembly of the XH-40]

Photograph of the XH-40 main rotor hub and blade assembly mounted in a fatigue test shack.
Date: August 6, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Bell employees working on the fuselage of an XH-40]

Photograph of Bell employees working on the fuselage of an XH-40 helicopter.
Date: August 24, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lycoming turbine engine ship #1 of the XH-40]

Photograph of the XH-40 Lycoming turbine engine ship #1.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Model of an XH-40 Float model helicopter]

Photograph of the underside of a model of an experimental XH-40 Float model helicopter.
Date: July 6, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Employees sitting in front of the XH-40 in progress]

Photograph of Bell employees working on the XH-40.
Date: August 24, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
[The XH-40 Flight Demonstration] captions transcript

[The XH-40 Flight Demonstration]

Video footage of Bell Helicopters' XH-40 flight demonstration for the U. S. Army. The XH-40 is a six-place, turboshaft-powered light helicopter, designed with the primary mission of battlefield medical evacuation. Operated by one or two pilots, it could carry four passengers. Bell Aircraft Corporation Chief Pilot Floyd W. Carlson and Chief Experimental Test Pilot Elton J. Smith made the first flight of the Bell Model 204 (designated XH-40-BF serial number 55-4459 by the United States Army) at Bell’s helicopter factory in Hurst, Texas.
Date: October 20, 1956
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Damage to XV-3 accident north east of Globe plant]

Photograph of the damage to XV-3 accident north east of Globe plant by pilot D. Stansbury.
Date: October 22, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library