Evolution of the V-22 Osprey The Osprey will be a hybrid airplane and helicopter. It will combine an airplane's range and speed with a helicopter's capability for hovering and vertical take-off and landing. It will look like a plane with big propellers; when in helicopter mode, the rotors will tilt upward. This tilt rotor technology is still unproven, but it is quite possibly far more effective than that used by existing primitive vertical takeoff and …showed first 75 words of 1145 total…

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