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The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is an American multi-use, tiltrotor military transport and cargo aircraft with both vertical takeoff and landing and short takeoff and landing capabilities. It is designed to combine the functionality of a conventional helicopter with the long-range, high-speed cruise performance of a turboprop aircraft.
An MV-22B Osprey operating in Syria as part of Operation Inherent Resolve was damaged beyond repair in a hard landing on 28 September 2017. [59] Two people on board the aircraft were injured. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] [ 62 ] The non–salvageable Osprey burned shortly after the crash.
A closeup of one of the V-22 Osprey's dual proprotors. A proprotor is a spinning airfoil that function as both an airplane-style propeller and a helicopter-style rotor . Several proprotor-equipped convertiplanes , such as the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor , are capable of switching back and forth between flying akin to both helicopters and ...
From right, a V-22 Osprey, a CH-53E Super Stallion, a CH-46 Sea Knight, a UH-1N Huey, and an AH-1 Cobra fly in formation over Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina, March 18, 2008. The area faced another major name change in 1968, where it was recommissioned as Marine Corps Air Station (Helicopter) New River, marking its growth ...
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The crash resulted in a two-month moratorium on V-22 test flights and further postponed its entry into operational military service. [12] The Department of Defense Director of Operational Test and Evaluation wrote a report seven months after the crash stating the Osprey was not "operationally suitable, primarily because of reliability, maintainability, availability, human factors and ...
Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey, the only crewed tiltrotor in production to date. A tiltrotor is a type of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft that convert from vertical to horizontal flight by rotating propellers or ducted fans from horizontal positions like conventional aircraft propellers to vertical like a helicopter's rotors.
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