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| James Cavanaugh Photography posted From my Archive. A 2008 view of the Bell Aircraft Factory at the Niagara Falls International Airport. Built in 1940, the plant produced about 15,000 aircraft during WWII and employed more than 30,000 people. After the war, the plant transitioned to experimental test aircraft (X-1, X-2, X-22) and commercial helicopters (Model-47). They also moved into aerospace products including the Agena rocket engine and the Lunar Assent engine that safely brought the Apollo astronauts safely back from the moon. Today the building is largely empty. Jim Cavanaugh shared with the same comment Tom Liptak: Rockets are actually still built and live-fired tested on site, using a lot of the same equipment from the Bell days! PD Cappola: Are one the ascent engines at the BELL museum? [Unfortunately, their domain name, bellaircraftmuseum.org, has been hijacked. Bell was born in Mentone, IN.] Jim Cavanaugh: PD Cappola it is. Justin J. M. Higner sharedVince Harzewski: Years ago, when Bell still had a a small presence in the plant (building gravitometers, IIRC) I did some work on an intercom system for them. The switching equipment was at the airport end of the property (in an electrical closet next to the elevator that went up to Lawrence Bell's private apartment) The intercom stations were all at the Walmore Rd. end of the plant. Lots of walking back and forth on that job. |
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| Bartel Miller posted This is an aerial view of the old Bell Aircraft plant in 1941! The plant and company, located at 2041 Niagara Falls Blvd, was the foremost aircraft firm of the times back then. Justin J. M. Higner shared TJ Tomsen: I believe that was one of the earliest GOCO plants or "government owned contractor operated". Bell bought the plant at some point not long after the war. |
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