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[Photograph of helicopter model NX41860]

Description: Photograph of seven men aboard a single occupancy helicopter prototype. They are hovering a few feet off the ground during its first flight. This particular prototype is the basis for the Bell 47 series, which includes the familiar model with the cockpit encased in a bubble of glass and the tail with exposed welded tube, similar to the helicopter in the photograph.
Date: [1943..]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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AH-1W Firing Test

Description: Footage of an AH-1W SuperCobra weapons test. The film covers test flights 278B, 281A, and 281B and features the tests of the LAU-10 and LAU-61 launchers and the CBU-55 cluster bomb. No sound.
Date: {1985-07-12,1985-07-18}
Duration: 7 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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AH-1W Firing Test

Description: Footage of an AH-1W SuperCobra weapons test. The film covers test flights 266A and 266B and features tests of the TOW missile launcher and the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile. No sound.
Date: June 21, 1985
Duration: 10 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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1543: 209 Firing, Fort Sill

Description: Footage from a body-mounted camera showing the AH-1 Cobra firing rockets and its main gun pod. No sound. At the beginning of the film, six uniformed men can be seen standing with the helicopter on the ground.
Date: 1966
Duration: 3 minutes
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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BF-2094: AH-1W Firing Test

Description: Slow-motion footage of an AH-1W SuperCobra test firing the LAU-10 rocket launcher. The film covers test flights 282, 283, and 284. No sound.
Date: {1985-07-19,1985-07-22}
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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BF-3253: Armed OH-58D Firing and Fort Apache

Description: Video shows several weapons tests of the OH-58D, including the M296 machine gun, Hydra-70 rocket pods, AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, and air-to-air Stinger missiles. The video ends with a segment from NBC Nightly News on the use of the then-secret OH-58D. The previously top-secret OH-58D operated out of a converted oil exploration barge nicknamed "Fort Apache," to protect shipping lanes during the Iran-Iraq War.
Date: 1988-08-05~
Duration: 6 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Golf Matches at the Colonial Country Club

Description: Footage of two golf matches at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, TX. The first is an exhibition match featuring Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson vs. Toney Penna and Henry Ransom. The second is from the 1940 National Open. No sound.
Date: 1940
Duration: 10 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[The XH-40 Flight Demonstration]

Description: 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 B… more
Date: October 20, 1956
Duration: 5 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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BF-3671: Airborne Law Enforcement Association (ALEA) Video

Description: Promotional video demonstrating how law enforcement agencies have employed Bell helicopters. The video features the U.S. Park Police, the Virginia State Police, the Virginia Beach Police Department, the Fort Worth Police Department, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, the Delaware State Police, and the Kentucky State Police. Models featured in the video include the 412, 206L LongRanger, 206B-3 JetRanger III, and the 222.
Date: 1991
Duration: 15 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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