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Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey facts for kids

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An MV=22 in flight in 2014

The V-22 Osprey is a tilt rotor aircraft, meaning it has 2 rotors it can tilt. This makes it so it can fly like a helicopter and an airplane. When the US Military failed Operation Eagle Claw, which was going to rescue some hostages, they wanted to get an aircraft that could take off vertically and was fast. This led to the companies Boeing and Bell Aircraft to work together to make the V-22 Osprey.

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  • V-22 concept

    Early concept illustrations of V-22

  • Aircraft.osprey.678pix

    U.S. Marines jump from an Osprey.

  • KC-130J Hercules aircraft refuels an MV-22 Osprey off the coast of North Carolina

    A KC-130J Hercules refuels an Osprey off the coast of North Carolina

  • V-22-166480-FAR01

    Closeup of rotor and engine of a MV-22B

  • V22-Osprey

    V-22 with rotors tilted, condensation trailing from propeller tips

  • Cockpit of V-22 Osprey

    A MV-22 cockpit on display at 2012 Wings over Gillespie

  • V-22 M240 machine gun

    M240 machine gun mounted on V-22 loading ramp

  • 20080406165033!V-22 Osprey refueling edit1

    Crew refuelling an MV-22 before a night mission in Iraq, 2008

  • VMM-162 Osprey on the tarmac in Iraq on April 1-2008

    A MV-22 of VMM-162 in Iraq, 2008

  • Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 disembarks from MV-22B Osprey (48464541017)

    Marines disembark from a MV-22 near Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, 2019

  • CV-22 Formation

    Two USAF CV-22s landing at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, in 2006

  • US Navy CMV-22B

    A CMV-22B in February 2020

  • V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft

    A V-22 Osprey flies a test mission.

  • CV-22 Osprey flies over the Emerald Coast

    A CV-22 of 8th Special Operations Squadron flies over Florida's Emerald Coast.

  • MV-22 conducts external lift from USNS Sacagawea

    A MV-22 delivers a Humvee to USNS Sacagawea

  • CV-22 Osprey - RIAT 2015 (22676996238)

    A U.S. Air Force CV-22 conducts a fly-pass at RIAT 2015

  • USMC-111026-M-KU932-203

    M327 towed 120mm heavy mortar and M1163 Growler back into an MV-22 on board USS Iwo Jima.

  • AHMEC V-22

    A V-22 at the American Helicopter Museum & Education Center

  • V-22 Osprey Seat arrangement

    V-22 seating layout

See also

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