Reminiscences of Lawrence Dale Bell, 1955

Biographical Note

Corporation executives

Scope and Contents

Fully transcribed, but undigitized interview includes: speeches from management dinners, Bell Aerospace Corp.; broadcast from world-record helicopter flight, Texas to Niagara Falls, 1952; Larry Bell Library dedication, Mentone, Indiana, 1955; first contact with airplane; exhibition flying; developing various types of planes; barnstorming; Bell Aircraft from 1935: developing the company, new techniques, new planes, work for military; world records; developing the helicopter; first supersonic flight. Impressions of Glenn Martin, Lincoln Beachey, Generals Henry H. Arnold and William S. Knudsen and others. Audio only covers a portion of the transcript: page 199 and pages 214-235.

Subjects

• Aeronautics, Military.
• Aeronautics.
• Air pilots--Interviews.
• Aviation.
• Bell, Lawrence Dale, 1894-1956--Interviews.
• Bell Helicopter Corporation.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Helicopters.
• Interviews.
• Lectures.
• Olmstead, George, interviewee.
• Olmstead, George--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Ramsey, DeWitt Clinton--Interviews.
• Smith, Elton J., interviewee.
• Smith, Elton J.--Interviews.
• Supersonic planes.