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This converted Bell 47 is a proof of concept gunship. Model 207 Sioux Scout has a tandem cockpit with windows down to the nose. Underneath is a gun turret. The braced stub wings are placed high, just below the two blade main rotor. The piston engine is in the rear fuselage.(photo: WikiMedia)
This sleek helicopter started as the two blade Bell 222, evolving via the 230 in the four blade Bell 430 as shown here. All versions can be fitted with a retractable gear or fixed skids. The trailing link main gear is retracted in sponsons attached to the lower rear fuselage.
This early helicopter has had many different gears, both skids and wheels. Here you see the nose gear version. All have in common a long fuselage without a clear tail boom. The main and tail rotor have two blades. Most have an open cockpit as shown here. The engine is behind the cockpit.
The Bell 427 has a large curved gear box/engine housing, on top of more or less the fuselage of a Bell 407. Hence the shape of this fuselage is like that of the Bell 206, with the bent in the rear fuselage. Finally, the heli has large exhaust pipes. (photo: Marek Vanzura/WikiMedia)
The Bell 429 is characterised by its curved fuselage, large curved gear box/engine housing and curved frame between cockpit front and side windows. Furthermore, it has a four blade main rotor and a low mounted two blade tail rotor.
The large bubble canopy and the open frame tail boom are very distinctive recognition points of this helicopter. This version has a two blade main and tail rotor. It comes in different versions though, including ones with a covered tail boom and/or a wheeled gear.
This is a Bell 47 variant, but totally different from the more common one with a sphere like glass canopy. The 47B model has a wheeled undercarriage with four legs and a fully enclosed fuselage with big windows and tail boom. You can still recognise the rotor system though.
While still versions of the Bell 47, the H and J model look much different. They have an enclosed cabin with doors, and a covered engine and tail boom. The rotor system is largely unchanged.
The Bell 505 has a very similar rotor system and tail boom as the Bell 206 family. The fuselage has a rounded rear and cockpit windows that curve from the front to the sides. Also typical are eight rectangular cooling intakes around the main air intake of the engine and the horizontal stabilisers attached underneath the tail boom.
This slender helicopter has a five-blade main rotor and a four blade tail rotor. Moreover, it has a large pylon on top of the engine/gear box housing. Most of the cabin windows are long and narrow. (photo: Zane Adams/WikiMedia)
