The MV-22B Osprey is a tiltrotor military aircraft combining helicopter-like VTOL with fixed-wing speed, enabling rapid troop deployment, special operations, and combat logistics for the U.S. Marine ...

But the V-22 Osprey has also caused the deaths of 62 service members. A crash in Japan last year grounded the entire fleet. We compared accident data for the Osprey with that of its closest rivals ...

DARPA hopes the Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) X-Plane can go beyond the current offerings, such as the V-22 Osprey. The push for more of these hybrid aircraft — that can take off like a ...

50 Cal machine gun Range: 500 nm Payload: 24 troops Crew: Four (pilot, copilot and two flight engineers) The MV-22 Osprey is the primary assault support aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps.

A newly released U.S. Marine Aviation Plan shows the service is now looking at a successor to its MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotors ...

With a price tag of about $84 million, the V-22 Osprey is the world's first production tilt-rotor aircraft. The MV-22 Osprey, flown by the Marine Corps, has the ability to take off vertically like ...

To make experimentation even easier, [Stephen Carlson] and other researchers from the RoboWork Lab at the University of Nevada created the MiniHawk, a 3D printed VTOL aircraft for use a test bed ...