Bell Helicopter Sponsors Top Fuel Dragster.FORT WORTH, Texas Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas, 18th-largest city in the United States[1], and voted one of "America’s Most Livable Communities. -- Hundreds of Bell Helicopter employees lined up Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 21, to view first hand the Menards/MTS Top Fuel Dragster drag·ster n. 1. An automobile specially built or modified for drag racing. 2. A person who races such an automobile. , which was on display at the company's main headquarters in Fort Worth. Bell Helicopter, a Textron company, is an associate sponsor on the car for this weekend's 20th annual NHRA NHRA National Hot Rod Association NHRA Northland Human Resource Association NHRA National Human Resources Association NHRA Nursing Home Reform Act NHRA National Hospice Regatta Alliance NHRA National Heritage Resources Act (South Africa) Fall Nationals at the Texas Motorplex in Ennis. The car features the Bell logo, golden wings with "Fly Smart, Fly Bell" on the leading edge canard ca·nard n. 1. An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story. 2. a. A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, such as a space shuttle, mounted forward of the main wing and . The 2,250-pound car, built on a 2005 Brad Hadman 300-inch Top Fuel chassis, has a 500 cubic-in. TFX engine capable of more than 7,000 horsepower. The vehicle is fueled with a 85% mix of Nitromethane ni·tro·meth·ane n. A colorless, oily liquid, CH3NO2, used in making dyes and resins, in organic synthesis, as a fuel in race car engines, and as a rocket propellant. and 15% methanol. Bell employees were fascinated with the dragster and genuinely appreciated its 320 mph top speed capability. But speed is no stranger for Bell products. Bell owns the world's speed record for a helicopter with a specially modified UH-I capable of more than 300 mph. Bell, in partnership with Boeing is producing the V-22 tiltrotor, the world's fastest production vertical lift aircraft A vertical lift aircraft is any type of aircraft capable of rising and descending vertically during flight. It includes helicopters, V/STOL jets like the Hawker Siddeley Harrier, and tiltrotor aircraft like the V-22 Osprey. . In addition Bell is developing the BA609 tiltrotor which is the world's fastest commercially available vertical lift aircraft. The highlight of the day for Bell employees was the chance to meet and get autographs from the driver of the Menards/MTS dragster, former NHRA Super Comp champion "Fast Jack" Beckman. The 39-year-old Beckman will be making his first appearance this weekend at the legendary Texas Motorplex as a professional racer. |
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