XV-15 litho - NASA's History Office
XV-15 litho - NASA's History Office
XV-15 litho - NASA's History Office
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20 July 1955 Transcendental Model 1-G crashes. Had previously flown<br />
from helicopter configuration to within 10 degrees of airplane<br />
configuration.<br />
11 August 1955 First hover flight of <strong>XV</strong>-3. Piloted by Bell Chief<br />
Helicopter Test Pilot Floyd Carlson.<br />
25 October 1956 <strong>XV</strong>-3 (tail number 4147) crashes due to a severe rotor<br />
instability injuring Bell test pilot Dick Stansbury.<br />
1957 Transcendental Model 2 program terminated as<br />
Government funding shifts to Bell <strong>XV</strong>-3.<br />
18 December 1958 <strong>XV</strong>-3 achieves first full in-flight conversion from helicopter<br />
to airplane mode and from airplane to helicopter mode.<br />
World’s record event. Piloted by Bell <strong>XV</strong>-3 project test<br />
pilot Bill Quinlan.<br />
6 February 1959 USAF Captain Robert G. Ferry first military pilot to execute<br />
full conversion of <strong>XV</strong>-3.<br />
1 May 1959 <strong>XV</strong>-3 shipped to Edwards Air Force Base for Phase II<br />
Flight Test Program. Flight testing begins <strong>15</strong> May 1959.<br />
12 August 1959 First hovering, altitude, and full conversion flight of <strong>XV</strong>-3<br />
by a NASA test pilot Fred Drinkwater.<br />
8 August 1961 U.S. Army test pilot Major E. E. Kluever conducts first<br />
flight evaluation of the <strong>XV</strong>-3 by an Army pilot.<br />
June/July1962 <strong>XV</strong>-3 (tail number 4148) with new rotor system tested in<br />
ARC 40- by 80-foot wind tunnel.<br />
April 1966 Analysis explaining the tilt rotor aircraft rotor/pylon/wing<br />
aeroelastic instability issued by Dr. Earl Hall of Bell.<br />
14 June 1966 NASA Ames Research Center announces completion of<br />
<strong>XV</strong>-3 testing. Total of 250 flights accomplished, 125 flight<br />
hours, 110 full conversions.<br />
May 1968 Aeroelastic stability obtained for a gimbaled proprotor<br />
using positive pitch-flap coupling (negative δ 3 )<br />
documented by Troy Gaffey of Bell.<br />
October/November Ames wind tunnel test of modified <strong>XV</strong>-3 validated predicted<br />
1968 rotor/pylon/wing aeroelastic stability.<br />
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