Posted by MarkB_MI on March 20, 2009 at 18:13:37 from (216.234.120.240):
In Reply to: OT - Ospreys posted by Howard H. on March 19, 2009 at 23:09:57:
Thanks for the pictures, Howard. I didn't realize that Bell is building the V-22s in Amarillo. When I was there about ten years ago the old Bell plant was shut down and deserted.
I worked at Bell Amarillo back in the early '80s. Interestingly, I saw a demonstration of the XV-15 there around 1981. The XV-15 was the original tilt-rotor aircraft from which the V-22 was derived. The performance of the XV-15 was spectacular. Bell used a Cessna Citation as a chase plane; they had tried a prop plane but it couldn't keep up. Even with the jet, the chase plane had to take off first because the acceleration of the XV-15 was such that the Citation couldn't keep up on takeoff.
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