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Osprey evaluation reaching its climax

Unless you have stood next to a Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor–and you won’t be able to at Le Bourget this week because it’s not here–it is difficult to

By Andrew Healey

December 12, 2006

Unless you have stood next to a Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor–and you won’t be able to at Le Bourget this week because it’s not here–it is difficult to fully comprehend what an impressive piece of engineering it is and what a struggle of wills it must have taken to bring it to this stage. It has taken a monumental effort to conceive, resource, design, build and, frankly, at times bludgeon such a revolutionary aircraft through to the point where the decision whether or not to enter full-rate production is a matter of weeks away.

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