Aug 212010
Via NASA-Ames, a painting from 1986 depicting a Bell/Boeing design for a civilian passenger transport derivative of the V-22 (although I think this was a larger vehicle).
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How many soldiers has the Osprey killed to date? I don’t think you could get the above thing insured at anything that would be economically justifiable.
Big contest going on as to whether to buy more Ospreys for the Marines at the moment:
http://defensetech.org/2010/08/16/osprey-or-ch-53/
Regarding the illustration, that thing’s around the size of a 737.
That’s going to be a noisy sucker with prop/rotor blades that big going around.
It’s quite aesthetically appealing though, isn’t it?
The V-22 Osprey has had 5 crashes with 34 fatalities since 1992. There have other mishaps with it, but the single biggest reason it’s not being flown commercially is there’s no market for it… yet.