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Tiltrotor progress

Terry Ford (Terry Ford is an aerospace writer who has many years of experience in the aerospace industry, latterly with British Aerospace, Weybridge, UK)

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN: 0002-2667

Article publication date: 1 February 1999

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Abstract

Outlines the development work on the tiltrotor undertaken during past decades and the more recent progress on the V‐22 Osprey now in production for the US Armed Forces. Also describes the first civil tiltrotor, the Bell Agusta 609, which is due to make its first flight in 2000.

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Ford, T. (1999), "Tiltrotor progress", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 71 No. 1, pp. 42-47. https://doi.org/10.1108/00022669910252169

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MCB UP Ltd

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