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Arthur Middleton Young (November 3, 1905 – May 30, 1995) was an American inventor, helicopter pioneer, philosopher, astrologer, and author. Young was the designer of Bell Helicopter 's first helicopter, the Model 30, and inventor of the stabilizer bar used on many of Bell's early helicopter designs.
The museum's exhibits chronicle the efforts of pioneers like Harold Frederick Pitcairn, Mr. W. Wallace Kellett of Kellett Autogiro, Arthur M. Young and Frank Piasecki, and today it continues to record the new and ever expanding role of the U.S. helicopter industry.
It was based on the third Bell 30 prototype, which was the company's first helicopter designed by Arthur M. Young. The 47 became the first helicopter certified for civilian use on 8 March 1946. [1] [2] The first civilian delivery was made on 31 December 1946 to Helicopter Air Transport. [3]
The Bell 30 is the prototype for the first commercial helicopter, and the first helicopter built by the Bell Aircraft Company. [2] Designed by Arthur M. Young , the type served as a demonstration testbed for the successful Bell 47 .
The Sioux is a single-engine single-rotor three-seat observation and basic training helicopter. In 1953 the Bell 47G design was introduced. It can be recognized by the full "soap bubble" canopy (as its designer Arthur M. Young termed it), [7] exposed welded-tube tail boom, saddle fuel tanks and skid landing gear.
Rep. Dean Phillips visits the site where his father, Army Capt. Arthur "Artie" Pfefer was killed in the Vietnam War when Phillips was 6 months old.
In 1959 Michael Paine got a job with Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas, [6] 30 miles from Dallas, and the Paines moved into a house in the suburb of Irving (Michael Paine's step-father, Arthur M. Young, designed the first Bell Helicopter). As liberals in Dallas, the Paines were isolated, and Ruth Paine was quite lonely.
The Home Depot cofounder Arthur M. Blank's family office is being sued by two private-jet flight attendants. They say they were overworked, and Blank's family office "falsified time records."