tilt-rotor

That effort led to the V-22, an ambitious tilt-rotor design.

Pentagon Loses War to Zap Airborne Laser From Budget Nathan Hodge 2011

The larger loads were Ospreys, tilt-rotor aircraft that could carry twice as many men as the helicopters and fly nearly twice as fast.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

Instead, the Pentagon in the 1980s opted for the tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey, which can fly vertically like a helicopter but with the speed and range of a propeller plane.

Helicopter Manufacturers Develop a Need for Speed Daniel Michaels 2011

The larger loads were Ospreys, tilt-rotor aircraft that could carry twice as many men as the helicopters and fly nearly twice as fast.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

The cuts could hammer Everett, Wash., where some of the 30,000 Boeing employees are working on giant airborne refueling tankers for the Air Force, or Amarillo, Texas, where 1,100 Bell Helicopter Textron workers assemble the fuselage, wings, engines and transmissions for the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.

'Doomsday' defense cuts loom large for select 12 2011

Under the original plans for Operation Cobra, the tilt-rotor aircraft were supposed to spearhead the Ranger assault on the Iranian nuclear facility in Ashkhaneh.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

The Air Force also says residents will barely notice the training runs by CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and MC-130J cargo planes.

Air Force Revises Unpopular Training-Flight Plan in the West Stephanie Simon 2011

Instead, the Pentagon in the 1980s opted for the tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey, which can fly vertically like a helicopter but with the speed and range of a propeller plane.

Helicopter Manufacturers Develop a Need for Speed Daniel Michaels 2011

Under the original plans for Operation Cobra, the tilt-rotor aircraft were supposed to spearhead the Ranger assault on the Iranian nuclear facility in Ashkhaneh.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

The Taliban quickly claimed that insurgent fighters downed the Osprey, a tilt-rotor aircraft that can take off and land as a helicopter, and that flies as a fixed-wing plane once its engines roll forward.

U.S. Aircraft Crashes in Southern Afghanistan Matthew Rosenberg 2010