Carl Coffman, director of global business development for advanced tiltrotor systems at Bell Helicopter, a Textron company, and a retired US Army colonel, discusses the V-280 Valor tiltrotor’s inaugural — and successful — test flight during a Dec. 19, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at Textron’s Washington headquarters. The test flight was conducted on Dec. 18, 2017, in Amarillo, Texas.
