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- Lawrence_Dale_Bell abstract "Lawrence Dale \"Larry\" Bell (April 5, 1894 – October 20, 1956) was an American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation.Bell was born in Mentone, Indiana and lived there until 1907, when his family moved to Santa Monica, California. He joined his older brother Grover and stunt pilot Lincoln Beachey as a mechanic in 1912. Grover Bell was killed in a plane crash the following year, and Lawrence vowed to quit aviation for good; however, he went to work for the Glenn L. Martin Company after friends convinced him to return to the industry. He became Martin's shop foreman at age 20, and later the company's general manager, wanting to become partner.He left Martin in 1928 to join Consolidated Aircraft in Buffalo, New York, eventually becoming vice president and general manager. When Consolidated relocated to San Diego, Bell stayed in Buffalo and founded his own company with 56 employees, Bell Aircraft Corporation, on July 10, 1935. On a government-sponsored \"spy tour\" to Germany with 44 other industrialists in 1938, he saw the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter and used the layout of a German aircraft factory for his Niagara Falls plant. Bell Aircraft built the P-39 \"Airacobra\" and P-63 \"Kingcobra\" fighter aircraft during World War II. Their P-59 \"Airacomet\" fighter was America's first jet-powered aircraft. Postwar, the company produced the Bell X-1, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. The company began developing helicopters in 1941, with the Bell 30 taking its maiden flight in 1943. This early model evolved into the Bell 47, one of the most recognizable aircraft in history.For his role in the X-1's first supersonic flight, he shared the 1947 Collier Trophy with pilot Chuck Yeager and John Stack, a research scientist with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (now NASA). He was awarded the Society of Automotive Engineers' Daniel Guggenheim Medal in 1944, and was posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame (1977), the Army Aviation Hall of Fame (1986), and the International Aerospace Hall of Fame (2004).".
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- Lawrence_Dale_Bell birthDate "1894-04-05".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell birthName "Lawrence Dale Bell".
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- Lawrence_Dale_Bell deathDate "1956-10-20".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell deathPlace Buffalo,_New_York.
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- Lawrence_Dale_Bell deathYear "1956".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell hometown Mentone,_Indiana.
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- Lawrence_Dale_Bell restingPlace Forest_Lawn_Cemetery_(Buffalo).
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- Lawrence_Dale_Bell wikiPageWikiLinkText "Larry Bell".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell wikiPageWikiLinkText "Lawrence Bell".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell wikiPageWikiLinkText "Lawrence D. "Larry" Bell".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell wikiPageWikiLinkText "Lawrence D. Bell".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell wikiPageWikiLinkText "Lawrence Dale Bell".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell awards "Daniel Guggenheim Medal".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell birthDate "1894-04-05".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell birthName "Lawrence Dale Bell".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell birthPlace Mentone,_Indiana.
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell birthPlace United_States.
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell caption "Lawrence Dale Bell".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell deathCause "Stroke".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell deathDate "1956-10-20".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell deathPlace "Buffalo, New York, USA".
- Lawrence_Dale_Bell homeTown Mentone,_Indiana.
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- Lawrence_Dale_Bell name "Lawrence Dale Bell".