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What control law do Osprey V22 used?

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The V-22 also has "flaperons" (flight control surfaces that act like flaps in some modes of operation and as ailerons in others). In helicopter mode, they drop down to avoid interfering with the rotor downwash and robbing the aircraft of lift; in forward flight, they support rolling movement. Okay -- that's the "what. read more

A “normal” plane has many control systems inside. The more important are certainly those related to the flight: direction, tilt, velocity, etc, but there are many others in the internal engineering systems (for instance, feedback shaping and control of electronic amplifiers is mandatory in many designs). read more

Markman, Steve and Bill Holder. "Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey Tilt-Engine VTOL Transport (U.S.A.)". Straight Up: A History of Vertical Flight. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7643-1204-9. Norton, Bill. Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, Tiltrotor Tactical Transport. Earl Shilton, Leicester, UK: Midland Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-85780-165-2. read more

The Osprey currently has limited firepower from the machine gun and an optional small, remote controlled gun that can be installed on the bottom of the aircraft. A Marine in an Osprey’s cargo bay could fire the 360-degree belly-mounted gun from a control station, but that weapon is rarely used since it weighs a lot, lessening the amount of cargo the aircraft can carry. read more