As a Bell Boeing from the US Marine Corps' VMX-22 test squadron made history earlier this week (10 July) by performing the type's first landing aboard a non-US vessel, Flightglobal obtained two videos of the Bell MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor transport in action.
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