USA: "Bell CEO Lisa Atherton to become president & CEO of Textron"

Vertical Magazine has the October 23, 2025:
https://verticalmag.com/news/bell-ceo-lisa-atherton-to-become-president-ceo-of-textron/

#helicopter #bell #bellflight

The @VTOLsociety has posted the Jan/Feb 2023 #Vertiflite magazine: https://vtol.org/news/jan-feb-2023-vertiflite

- #BellFlight wins #FLRAA
- #Archer's #Midnight Showing
- #EuropeanRotors 2022
- #AIRTEC 2022
- #Airbus Highlights #Sustainability at #AirbusSummit (including #DisruptiveLab)
- Airbus's #Germanetti wins #VFS #Nikolsky
- #Tier1's #eR44 Cross-Country Flight
- #Alauda Airspeeder Update
- #HoneywellAerospace #UAS/#UAM
- #eVTOL Leaders
- #eVTOLnews
- #eCTOL/#eSTOL news

#Helicopter #aviation #AvGeek #VTOL

#BellFlight won the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft #FLRAA competition this month. The competing companies received their first funded design studies in 2011. A lot has changed over those years, but the @VTOLsociety has been supporting FLRAA and the overall #FutureVerticalLift (#FVL) program it all along the way.

Read our latest commentary by VFS Executive Director Mike Hirschberg (@vstol).

https://vtol.org/news/commentary-transitions-from-2011-to-2023

#ArmyAviation #Helicopter #Aviation #rotorcraft #AvGeek #VTOL

15 years after Congress first instigated the #FutureVerticalLift program at the behest of #VFS and our members, and 11+ years after the 1st contract awards, the "Army announces Future Long Range Assault Aircraft contract award":
https://army.mil/article/262523

Congrats to #BellFlight, #USArmy and #FVLCFT!

#helicopter #avgeek #rotorcraft #aviation #ArmyAviation #tiltrotor #FLRAA

(Jay Miller photo of first flight, Dec. 18, 2017)