David King, BA609 Analytical Integration Leader, discusses this achievement and the use of Model-Based Design with MathWorks products.

Simulation and Automatic Code Generation Ensure a Flawless First Flight

Using Model-Based Design, Bell Helicopter creates the world's first civilian tiltrotor.

"As an aerospace engineer you rarely get to take an idea from a blank sheet of paper to a completed, flying aircraft," says Tom Brooks, Principal Engineer at Bell Helicopter Textron. Brooks and his colleagues were presented with that opportunity when they designed and built the BA609, the first and fastest commercially available tiltrotor aircraft in the world.
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