Dream Machine The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey

Name: Dream Machine The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey
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ISBN: 9781416562962

ISBN-10: 1416562966

ISBN-13: 9781416562962

Edition: N/A

Authors: Richard Whittle

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WHEN THE MARINES decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid "tiltrotor" called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival. By 2000, the Osprey was nine years late and billions over budget, bedeviled by technological hurdles, business rivalries, and an epic political battle over whether to build it at all. Opponents called it one of the worst boondoggles in Pentagon history. The Marines…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.880