"Rock Bottom" (rockbottom81)
12/17/2013 at 18:02 • Filed to: First Flight Tuesday
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"Rock Bottom" (rockbottom81)
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The Bell XV-3 was the first aircraft to successfully demonstrate the concept of the "tilt-rotor" aircraft configuration. First flown in 1955, she led to the wildly successful Bell XV-15 program, which fathered the V-22 Osprey, Augusta-Westland 609, and a number of drone programs.
I did a short write-up on the development of tilt-rotor technology a few months ago: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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McMike
> Rock Bottom
12/17/2013 at 18:04 |
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Absolutely. Fucking. Terrified.
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Rock Bottom
> McMike
12/17/2013 at 18:23 |
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... says any sane man who's ever been in a helicopter.
... said any sane man who flew in any experimental aircraft in the 1950s.