Aircraft Profile: Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey

Aircraft Profile: Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey

The BellBoeing V-22 Osprey is the world's first production tiltrotor, combining the vertical performance of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed wing turboprop. Capable of both vertical and short take-off and landings, the Osprey typically takes off operating as a helicopter with its nacelles vertical (rotors horizontal). Once airborne, the nacelles rotate forward 90° for horizontal flight.


Manufactured by the BellBoeing joint venture, the V-22 is powered by two, 6,150shp Rolls-Royce AE1107C engines and is designed to carry 24 combat troops, or up to 20,000lb (9,072kg) of internal cargo. It is the only rotorcraft designed to self-deploy worldwide.


History


The US Department of Defense began the V-22 program in 1981, then known as the Joint-service Vertical take-off/landing Experimental (JVX) aircraft, with full-scale development beginning in 1986. The first of six MV-22 prototypes first flew in March 1989 with the US Air Force taking delivery of its first CV-22 in September 2005.


Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey 

Length (fuselage)  57.33 ft  17.48 m
Width (fuselage)  15.33 ft  4.64 m
Width (rotors turning)  84.6 ft  25.78 m
Height (nacelles vertical)  22.1 ft  6.74 m
Maximum Speed  250 kts  463 kmh
Maximum rate of climb  3,200 fpm  975 m/m
Range (with 24 troops)  390 nm  722 km
Range (with refuelling crew)  2,100 nm  3,892 km
MTOW (vertical)  52,600, lb  23,859 kg

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