The Leonardo AW609 made a public appearance during a recent airshow in Italy. While it prepares to be certified as the world’s first commercial...

I’ve just made the March 2022 rewards available for APR Patrons and Subscribers. This latest package includes: Art: A poster of the 1990’s German Sanger II two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane Document: Bell-Boeing “Pointer” brochure… full color brochure describing the proposed tiltrotor UAV Document: Cessna EV-37E STOL: 1964 presentation on battlefield recon/surveillance version of the T-37 Document: History [...]

As part fo the Volpe Bianca 2022 exercise, the U.S. Marine Corps aircraft deployed to Italy and carried out training activities with the Italian Army in mountain environment. Two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft assigned to [...]

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Four Marines were killed following the crash of an MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft taking part in Operation Cold Response in Norway. A USMC MV-22B Osprey, belonging to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (VMM-261) “Raging Bulls” [...]

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Circa 1967, bell Aircraft produced a design for a tiltrotor VTOL aircraft that would be quite similar to the V-22 Osprey of 20 years later. the Model 266 had two T64 turboshaft engines, one at each wingtip. Each engine drove a three-bladed prop/rotor that could be tilted to provide vertical or horizontal thrust, with cross-shafts [...]

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Leonardo AW609 Tiltrotor, United tail strike, FAA flight training policy, antitrust suit over American Airlines-JetBlue alliance, industry-wide no-fly list,Rolls-Royce wins B-52 re-engine contract.

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