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Old 10th January 2012 | 19:35
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Acer, thanks for that link. Perhaps Magellan will help Bell find their way back to being a premier helicopter manufacturing concern.
This is not a change in our manufacturing and final assembly strategy. Mirabel remains our principle commercial aircraft assembly center and commercial airframe design center of excellence; and Amarillo remains our military assembly and delivery center of excellence. Engineers in Mirabel assigned to the Magellan development team will continue that work.
FWIW: I suggest, on the strength of the article's coda cited above, that the Bell consider renaming themselves Belle Hélicoptère , and that Textron consider renaming the tilt rotor division Semper Fly.

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