To: idle stop & Shawn Coyle
Regarding Bell helicopters:
OH-58 = Civil design WYSIWYG
Bell Huey = Designed to mil specs. that existed at that time. Most likely MIL STD 1472 was not in existence at that time and if it were it was not fully defined.
Bell 212 = Derived from 205 but not to mil specs. If a problem existed in the 205 it was most likely in the 212.
Bell 412 = See 212 above.
Bell 214 = Derivation of the 205, 212 but not designed to military specifications. If it was bad in the 205 it was bad in the 214.
Bell Cobra = Derived from the 205 but not to a military specification. This applies to all Cobra models. None of them were designed to a military specification and the pilots got what Bell gave them.
