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About Harvey Gaylord
- Harvey Gaylord (July 1, 1904 - May 20, 1983) was president of the Bell Aerospace Corporation and an executive vice president of Textron Inc.
- He died at Lawrence and Memorial Hospitals in New London, Connecticut.
- He was a resident of Niantic, Connecticut, and was 78 years old. Mr.
- Gaylord joined Bell in 1941.
- During the Second World War he was involved in the management of the B-29 plant in Marietta, Georgia.
- In 1959 he was elected president of Bell Aerospace Corporation.
- He was also involved in the licensing of Bell Helicopter production to Agusta in Italy.
- He then was named president of the Bell Aerospace Corporation, now Bell Helicopter Textron when it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Textron.
- He was named executive vice president of Textron in 1963 and also served as president of the National Aviation Corporation until he retired in 1971.
- During his tenure at Bell, he shepherded the development of many famous experimental aircraft, including the X1, as well as successful commercial and military helicopters including the CH-139 Jet Ranger, Huey, and AH-1 Cobra. He was born in Buffalo and graduated from Princeton University in 1927.
- Prior to work at Bell, he worked as a stockbroker in New York City and Buffalo, New York.
- He was a director of the American Helicopter Society and the National Security Industrial Association and also served from 1957 to 1959 as secretary of the Army Scientific Advisory Panel.
- His work on this panel advocated the expanded use of helicopters in military operations. Harvey Gaylord was the son of Dr.
- Harvey Russell Gaylord, a pioneer cancer researcher in Buffalo New York, and the grandson of Augustine S.
- Gaylord, United States Attorney under Ulysses S.
- Grant.
- Augustine Gaylord was the son of the first Harvey Russell Gaylord, a prominent abolitionist in Ashtabula County, Ohio.
- His interests included sports cars—including an Arnolt Bristol, and wine.
- He was a member of the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin.
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