s Sikorsky Aircraft, teamed up with Boeing, are offering dueling visions of futuristic rotorcraft destined to replace the huge numbers of Black Hawk and Apache helicopters ... Bell Helicopter is modifying the tilt-rotor technology featured in the existing V-22 Osprey for a smaller Army craft called the V-280 Valor. read more
More likely tilt wing planes will replace the disastrous v22 osprey. If they tilt the wing with several engines they are ahead of the tilting rotor. That v22 didn’t born well, it lacks helicopters blades. read more
The Ospreys were sent first because Army helicopters assigned to the mission had to be taken apart and sent to Africa by ship, then put back together. Cpl. William Cox provides security as an Osprey lands in Afghanistan in 2011. read more