Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey
The V-22 Osprey is a tilt rotor aircraft, meaning it has 2 rotors it can tilt. This makes it so it can fly like a helicopter and an airplane. It can even fly as high as the stratosphere. When the US Military failed Operation Eagle Claw, which was going to rescue some hostages, they wanted to get an aircraft that could take off vertically and was fast. This led to the companies Boeing and Bell Aircraft to work together to make the V-22 Osprey.
Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey Media
Early concept illustrations of V-22
U.S. Marines jump from an Osprey.
A V-22 in a compact storage configuration during the Navy's evaluation, 2002
A KC-130J Hercules refuels an Osprey off the coast of North Carolina.
Closeup of rotor and engine of a MV-22B
V-22 with rotors tilted, condensation trailing from propeller tips
An MV-22 cockpit on display at 2012 Wings over Gillespie
M240 machine gun mounted on V-22 loading ramp in Iraq, 2007
Crew refuels an MV-22 before a night mission in Iraq, 2008
Two U.S. Marine Corps MV-22s of VMM-161 land at a forward operating base in Afghanistan, 2012
Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey video
