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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on March 23, 2017, 10:50:20 am
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The V-22’s Combat Comeback
By Brian Adam Jones
on March 19, 2017
It wasn’t long ago that the V-22 Osprey program seemed to be mired by constant criticized. A 2012 report in Wired’s Danger Room by David Axe called it “an aircraft with a reputation for falling from the sky.”
That report detailed a series of mishaps that caused injury and millions of dollars in damage, as well as the fraught development of the V-22, a tilt-rotor aircraft that can land and takeoff like a helicopter, and then fly forward like a propeller-driven airplane.
http://taskandpurpose.com/v-22s-combat-comeback/
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Its an impressive machine to watch taking off from and landing on an assault carrier. The test planes used to fly over Comanche Peak in the 1990's when I worked there.