Osprey bites the dust

The V-22 Osprey is the first operational tilt-rotor aircraft in the world. Capable of taking off like a helicopter but able to sustain airplane cruise speeds, the Osprey is really a marvel of technology. But its beginnings were crazy and tumultuous. Check out for instance this amazing video of a test flight crash in 1991, a time when this radical new concept was still in development.

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