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Amazing Osprey Plane
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Just thought I'd share that a really noisy thing flew over my workplace today and rushing to the window it was a US marine Osprey, space-age cross between helicopter and plane,never seen or heard anything like it before. For those interested
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.That reminds me of an occasion about 50 years ago when I was working at Boscombe Down. Being an experimental establishment we had "one of everything" there and my brother-in-law used to love to come down from Lancashire to watch the aircraft flying. We were down at the end of the runway one day when this jet came screaming round...and stopped before it flew away again; talk about eyes on stalks. P1127, of course, became Kestrel and then Harrier. Recognised by everybody nowadays but unknown in those days.
Britain did it first with the Fairey Rotodyne. This was the plane showed the concept of a hybrid helicopter / aircraft
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The big problem was the same as with the Osprey, NOISE .
It was so noisy it was deemed unacceptable.
I saw a Rotodyne at an airshow when I was a child and the noise was deafening .
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The big problem was the same as with the Osprey, NOISE .
It was so noisy it was deemed unacceptable.
I saw a Rotodyne at an airshow when I was a child and the noise was deafening .
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