cyclic monkey Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 Icing trials???.......yeah right, we know what you guys are really doing with that thing!! (After all, who would come to N.S. for icing trials ......you never get any bad weather there do ya'??) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hover-Pig Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 Sweet action or what eh... Glad to see you guys hooked up. So when is CHC placing an order? I figure it would make short work of those trips out to the rigs. We saw it takes off one day at Shearwater and do a 180 turn out to sea as he converted to aeroplane mode.......man alive by the time he left the confines of the airfield to the south that baby was doing 250 knots easy....schwing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotorhead Posted February 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 I have seen some take-off video of the XV-15. So far I haven't seen any of the Osprey and will likely have to depend on someone working at the base to get that as I had to be supervised by the test pilot. Here's another shot of the instrument panel. Amazingly easy to navigate through all of the functions once we were shown how. Makes our old 61 cockpit really look "steam driven". RH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotorhead Posted February 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 ... Was wondering if any of you have a movie function on your digital cam?? I would love to see one of those aircraft in action... Here is a link to some clips provided on the BellAgusta site. Tiltrotor, but not the Osprey... http://www.bellagusta.com/html/aeroNet/pho...dex.html#1video RH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotorhead Posted February 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 Here are a few videos on this site... http://pma275.navair.navy.mil/index.cfm?fu...=gallery.view_1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puddle Jumper Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 Rotorhead Thanks for the link, pretty impressive!! I was actually looking for civillian made videos of these wonderful aircraft. Something that hasn't been produced to sell the aircraft. Just to see how it really takes off and lands in a normal conidtions. I have seen the tiltrotor on the discovery channel but was still interested in seeing takeoff characteristics in less than ideal situations. And here is a good question, what are their requirements for flying VFR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotorhead Posted February 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 Hmmm, I've never heard of a strictly IFR aircraft. What do you mean by that? RH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tDawe Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 Might seem like a silly question, but can the V22 perform a pedal turn? do they offset the angles of one of the nacelles? Don't know a lot about tilt rotors yet, Just curious how far its helicopter qualities really go. tDawe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotorhead Posted February 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2004 It can do as much in a hover as any tandem rotor type machine. I don't imagine it would be a very efficient logging machine though. "You can take the boy out of the logging machine, but try to take the logger out of the boy...." RH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CHEVY II Posted February 27, 2004 Report Share Posted February 27, 2004 RH...very cool pics...I wish I would've known you guys were going, I would've asked if could tag along! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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