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[CommanderJB]

True, but they cancelled them all (or at least most of them). The V-22 is the only model to actually enter service, and then in a very troubled manner, despite the fact that the dozens of concept models have proven quite sucessful. What I was getting at was more the fact that militaries haven't actually used the technology, even though they may have investigated it. Thanks for showing me all those models, though; I'd never heard of practically all of them.

[Strategia]

CommanderJB, on 14 Aug 2008, 5:38, said:

True, but they cancelled them all (or at least most of them). The V-22 is the only model to actually enter service, and then in a very troubled manner, despite the fact that the dozens of concept models have proven quite sucessful.

Exactly. Militaries (especially the US Military) have looked into tiltrotors and tiltwings before, and found them wanting. And the V-22 itself has something of a reputation of being unreliable and dangerous. It has literally been a century since the inception of the tiltrotor/tiltwing idea, and only now has a reliable model entered service.

That said, with the V-22's success, there's apparently greater interest in tiltrotors/tiltwings, as the AD-150 and Eagle Eye are both tiltrotor UAVs under development.

[Zero]

This may just be me...... but doesn't that plane look like the FALKEN from Ace Combat 5?

[Cuppa]

Just you.