Atomic Bombers, Missiles & Supersonic Secrets: The X-Planes Story Episode 7. HD Upscaled Documentary

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[@andrewhefner289]

Possible does not mean practical. The tilt wing designs were the only ones that had a chance of succeeding. The tail sitters were ergonomic impossibilities. The tilt rotors were and still are too mechanically complex to be reliable. Directed thrust does work but is and probably always will be, touchy twitchy and dicey to fly in transition.

[@kennethhoffman8845]

While not an aeronautical engineer, I still have to wonder about the strength of Osprey with those big rotating engines with those beefy props mounted on the END of the wings. And that is to say nothing about the no doubt complicated mechanism within that does the transition. It just seems as if there are too many things that create stresses that could lead to airframe fatigue and/or mechanical wear that could cause the whole works to get out of balance and tear itself apart quickly. Is all that complexity really worth it? All in all it is one scary looking machine.

[@flybouy11]

Dangerous aircraft

[@ZIGZAGBureauofInvestigation]

What about USAF HoundDog Missile ?

[@franksizzllemann5628]

"Vertical tail 3:55 with no rudder" - I thought the rudder was the "vertical tail," like on a boat.

[@RideADucati]

No, a rudder on an aircraft is the moveable part on the vertical stabilizer. Just like the elevator is the movable surface on a horizontal stabilizer. Just like on a boat, the rudder moves. The one that doesn’t is called a keel. So basically it was a vertical stabilizer with no moving parts.

[@hertzair1186]

I flew with a guy that flew the Osprey…he hated it, scared the hell out of him.

[@acb9896]

Turban= Middl Eastern headgear TurbINE= Jet engine airflow vectoring device.

[@none941]

Only a partial answer!