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. Bell moved 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. Post-war, the company began developing helicopters in 1941. Bell’s greatest enduring legacy is perhaps the UH-1 Iroquois, with over 16,000 produced, advanced versions of which remain in production. The „Huey“ transformed US Army aviation during the Vietnam War and became one of the most recognizable aircraft in history. We celebrate Larry Bell’s 121^st birthday with a scale model of a Bell 222 …