A tiltrotor is an aircraft that generates lift and propulsion by way of one or more powered rotors (sometimes called proprotors) mounted on rotating shafts...
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The Bell Boeing Quad TiltRotor (QTR) is a proposed four-rotor derivative of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey developed jointly by Bell Helicopter and Boeing...
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A tiltrotor is a type of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft that convert from vertical to horizontal flight by rotating propellers or ducted...
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Bell V-280 Valor (category Tiltrotor aircraft)
The Bell V-280 Valor is a tiltrotor aircraft being developed by Bell Helicopter for the United States Army's Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program. The aircraft...
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Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey (category Tiltrotor aircraft)
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is an American multi-mission, tiltrotor military aircraft with both vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and short takeoff...
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is the squadron. Fixed-wing aircraft squadrons (heavier than air) and tiltrotor squadrons are denoted by the letter "V", which comes from the Spanish...
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Mono Tiltrotor project is a research effort into a tiltrotor aircraft that uses only one rotor. Like other tiltrotor configurations, the mono tiltrotor combines...
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Eye (tiltrotor UAV) Bell V-280 Valor (tiltrotor) Bell X-14 (vectored thrust) Bell X-22 (ducted fan) Bell XV-3 (first tiltrotor) Bell XV-15 (tiltrotor) Bensen...
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Bell Textron (section Tiltrotors)
Osprey – with Boeing BDS TR918 Eagle Eye UAV Quad TiltRotor – with Boeing BDS Bell BAT (1984 tiltrotor project for LHX programme – not built) Bell CTR-1900...
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Convertiplane (section Tiltrotor)
classed as a rotorcraft and not a convertiplane. The powered rotors of a tiltrotor (sometimes called proprotor) are mounted on rotating shafts or nacelles...
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Powered lift (section Tiltrotor)
the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey used by the United States Marines, use a tiltrotor or tiltwing. These are called a convertiplane. Others like the British...
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Leonardo AW609 (category Tiltrotor aircraft)
AgustaWestland AW609, and originally the Bell/Agusta BA609, is a twin-engined tiltrotor VTOL aircraft with an overall configuration similar to that of the Bell...
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Bell XV-15 (category Tiltrotor aircraft)
The Bell XV-15 is an American tiltrotor VTOL aircraft. It was the second successful experimental tiltrotor aircraft and the first to demonstrate the concept's...
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VMM-262 (redirect from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262)
Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 (VMM-262) is a United States Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron consisting of MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. The...
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The Leonardo Next-Generation Civil Tiltrotor (NextGenCTR or NGCTR) is a tiltrotor aircraft demonstrator designed and developed by the Italian aerospace...
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conventional helicopter, a large-wing slowed rotor compound helicopter, and a tiltrotor – were being studied as of April 2013. Although requirements are still...
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and rotates up for vertical takeoff and landing. It is similar to the tiltrotor design where only the propeller and engine rotate. Tiltwing aircraft are...
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Stuart Couch (section MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor cover-up)
officer of the Marine Corps' only V-22 tiltrotor squadron for falsifying maintenance records. The MV-22 tiltrotor was in development for decades with continued...
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greater payload capacity than the monorotor design, and coaxial-rotor, tiltrotor, and compound helicopters are also all flying today. Quadrotor helicopters...
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The ACE is led by an aviation headquarters which employs rotary-wing, tiltrotor, and fixed-wing aircraft in conjunction with command and control, maintenance...
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Bell XV-3 (category Tiltrotor aircraft)
The Bell XV-3 (Bell 200) is an American tiltrotor aircraft developed by Bell Helicopter for a joint research program between the United States Air Force...
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VMM-363 (redirect from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 363)
Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 363 (VMM-363) is a United States Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron consisting of MV-22B Ospreys. The squadron, known as...
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AgustaWestland and the BA609 tiltrotor has been rebranded as the AW609. AgustaWestland AW609 - a civil twin-engined tiltrotor vertical take-off and landing...
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Clean Sky (redirect from Next-Gen Civil Tiltrotor)
Airbus RACER compound helicopter and the Leonardo Next-Generation Civil Tiltrotor (NGCTR). In 2016, French ONERA, German DLR and Dutch TU Delft/NLR were...
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AgustaWestland Project Zero (category Tiltrotor aircraft)
The AgustaWestland Project Zero is a hybrid tiltrotor/Lift fan aircraft. It has been developed by AgustaWestland as a technology demonstrator, and is...
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rotorcrafts such as utility and attack helicopters, and can also support tiltrotor aircraft (such as the MV-22 Osprey) and VSTOL fixed-wing aircraft (such...
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Bell Eagle Eye (category Tiltrotor aircraft)
The Bell Helicopter Eagle Eye, Model 918, was an American tiltrotor unmanned aerial vehicle that was offered as one of the competitors in the United States...
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twin helicopter program, and to increase its interest in the BA609 civil tiltrotor aircraft from 25 per cent to 40 per cent. In June 2008, AgustaWestland...
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Types of aircraft by methods of thrust and lift Note 1: A tiltwing or tiltrotor aircraft functions as an aeroplane during normal (horizontal) flight and...
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