Professor Elam

Tuesday June 3, 2014

The vertical take off and horizontal flying capability of the Osprey has been a long time in coming, after many initial failures. The idea was to combine VTO with the longer range flying capability of a fixed wing arircraft, All you had to do was make the props pivot 90 degrees, right, well it was tougher than that. 

But here is the result today.  This is the same sort of game changer and advacnce that the ultra reliable CD 3 proved to be in the 1930s