John Shade, the executive vice president for business development and future programs at Rolls-Royce Defense, with a walk-around of the company’s AE 1107F engine for Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor at the Association of the United States Army’s 2021 conference and tradeshow in Washington, DC. The V-280 is competing for the US Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition.
Keith Flail, the vice president for advanced vertical lift systems at Bell, and Frank Lazzara, the company’s director for advanced vertical lift systems sales and strategy, discuss the 360 Invictus helicopter the company will propose in the US Army’s competition for a Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at Bell’s Advnaced Vertical Lift Center in northern Virginia. Flail is a retired US Army lieutenant colonel who flew the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior and Lazzara is a reitred US Air Force lieutenant colonel who started his career in the Army flying Kiowas before joining the Air Force to fly the MH-53 Pave Low and MV-22 Osprey aircraft.