5/13/2023 0 Comments Predator by Richard Whittle![]() Then two crashes killed twenty-three Marines. The Marines were eager to put it into service anyway. Opponents called it one of the worst boondoggles in Pentagon history. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival.īy 2000, the Osprey was nine years late and billions over budget, bedeviled by technological hurdles, business rivalries, and an epic political battle over whether to build it at all. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. ![]() The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid “tiltrotor” called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. A fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the V-22 Osprey, revealing the inside story of the most controversial piece of military hardware ever developed for the U.S. ![]()
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