&type=1 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Marines die in plane fireball.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England); 4/10/2000; 107 words;
Nineteen US Marines died when a high-tech Osprey convertiplane crashed and burned as it landed at an airport near Tucson, Arizona. The special aircraft - it looks like a plane but takes off ...
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Marine Aircraft Crashes in Ariz.; Deaths Reported
The Washington Post; 4/9/2000; 170 words;
... that appeared to be on fire falling toward the ground. The Marine Corps' Osprey is a tilt-rotor aircraft, also known as a convertiplane, that flies like a plane but can land and take off like a helicopter. Its two propjet turbines power two oversize propellers ...
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Air Museum Honors Aviation Trailblazer; Annex Hangar Named After McDonnell
The Washington Post; 8/1/2002; Diane Mattingly; 366 words;
... including a McDonnell F-4S Phantom II and a McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane. The annex will allow the public to see the 80 percent of ... the first twin-rotor, twin-engine helicopter; the first convertiplane (a helicopter that converts into an airplane); and the supersonic ...
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Museum Recognizes Aviation Trailblazer; Hangar Gets McDonnell's Name
The Washington Post; 8/1/2002; Diane Mattingly; 367 words;
... including a McDonnell F-4S Phantom II and a McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane. The annex will allow the public to see the 80 percent of ... the first twin-rotor, twin-engine helicopter; the first convertiplane (a helicopter that converts into an airplane); and the supersonic ...
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Museum Recognizes Trailblazer; Space Hangar Gets McDonnell's Name
The Washington Post; 8/1/2002; Diane Mattingly; 367 words;
... including a McDonnell F-4S Phantom II and a McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane. The annex will allow the public to see the 80 percent of ... the first twin-rotor, twin-engine helicopter; the first convertiplane (a helicopter that converts into an airplane); and the supersonic ...
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Museum Recognizes McDonnell With Space Hangar
The Washington Post; 8/1/2002; Diane Mattingly; 366 words;
... including a McDonnell F-4S Phantom II and a McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane. The annex will allow the public to see the 80 percent of ... the first twin-rotor, twin-engine helicopter; the first convertiplane (a helicopter that converts into an airplane); and the supersonic ...
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&type=1 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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Navy's aircraft deal put on hold.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 4/10/2000; Moore, Ron; 263 words;
... trying to cancel the project, which cost American taxpayers pounds 15billion. The vertical-lift aircraft, also known as a convertiplane, was introduced to the US military last September. It looks like a normal fixed-wing aircraft with two huge propellers ...
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Fewer trips for the fuel truck: developments debuted at the Paris Air Show put airliners on a track toward flying more passengers while using less fuel.(AEROSPACE)
Machine Design; 9/13/2007; Rowe, Robert; 2037 words;
... as feeders for big jets. In these regards, an important debut in Paris was the Bell\ Agusta Aerospace Co. nine-passenger convertiplane, the BA609 tiltrotor. It is a smaller civilian offshoot of the Bell-Boeing V22 Osprey. (See Machine Design, 9/14/06, pg ...
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CLINTON OFFERS TO BUY BACK GUNS
The Columbian; 9/9/1999; ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press; 826 words;
... of what our forces will need and what they will become in the 21st century." The vertical-lift aircraft, also known as a convertiplane, flies at twice the speed, has four times the range and carries twice the payload of the aging CH-46 helicopters it will ...
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TILT ROTOR AIRCRAFT JOINS NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM COLLECTION
Regulatory Intelligence Data; 9/16/2003; INDSTRY GROUP 91; 528 words;
... helicopter with the range and speed of a turboprop aircraft. Tilt rotor flight research began in the 1950s with the Bell XV-3 convertiplane. Using lessons learned from the XV-3, NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., in partnership with the U.S. Army ...
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The Russian way
Interavia; 1/1/2002; Butowski, Piotr; 1729 words;
... certainly be a totally new design. The project will be chosen from proposals offered by Kamov and Mil, who worked on the "convertiplane" until the early 199(1s, but only to the stage of paper design. What is industry offering? Now let us come back to the more ...
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The Russian way: with no major new developments expected until 2005, Mil and Kamov are pushing ahead with existing programmes for domestic and export markets. (Industry report: civil helicopter markets).(Statistical Data Included)
Interavia Business & Technology; 1/1/2002; Butowski, Piotr; 1907 words;
... certainly be a totally new design. The project will be chosen from proposals offered by Kamov and Mil, who worked on the convertiplane until the early 1990s, but only to the stage of paper design. What is industry offering? Now let us come back to the more ...
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The farmer and his flying machine
New Straits Times; 8/19/2002; Heidi Munan; 1193 words;
... so absorbed in his inventions that he forgot to eat. A nephew remembers that in the 1930s Uncle Richard was working on a "convertiplane ... mass- produced ... with folding wings and tail so you could store it in your garage like a car." What Henry Ford had ...
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Centennial of powered flight--a little early
Plane and Pilot; 4/1/2002; Munan, Heidi; 925 words;
... history. Pearse kept up some contact with his family. A young nephew remembers that in the 1930s, his uncle was working on a "convertiplane, a plane for everybody.. mass-produced.. one you could go to work in ... with folding wings and tail so you could store it ...
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&type=1 "Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)")
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History of crashes, design flaws leaves doubt over Osprey.
Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); 2/11/2007; 1588 words;
... Dorsey at (757) 446-2284 or jack.dorsey@pilotonline.com. IT'S A CONVERTIPLANE After years of development and several high-profile wrecks ... Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call ...
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