Tiltrotor progress

Abstract

Outlines the development work on the tiltrotor undertaken during past decades and the more recent progress on the V‐22 Osprey now in production for the US Armed Forces. Also describes the first civil tiltrotor, the Bell Agusta 609, which is due to make its first flight in 2000.

Citation

Ford, T. (1999), "Tiltrotor progress", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 71 No. 1, pp. 42-47. https://doi.org/10.1108/00022669910252169