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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stargazer2006" data-source="post: 126621" data-attributes="member: 3129"><blockquote data-quote="Tailspin Turtle">My guess is that there are three different Boeing Vertol tilt rotor designs above. The first small crude picture resembles the 222, which was Boeing's proposal for the NASA-Army Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft program that resulted in the Bell Helicopter XV-15. It combined a Boeing tilt rotor wing/propulsion system with a Mitsubishi MU-2 fuselage. The combat rescue artists concept is similar to the 222 but probably a bit larger with a new fuselage. The wind tunnel picture appears to be a much larger transport-class aircraft with a T tail and is presumably the BV 160 since the caption identifies it as such.</blockquote>I would tend to think like you, except the first pic is ALSO labeled "Model 160"... Mind you, there could be a whole array of very different-looking designs under the same generic project number, Boeing are very good at that...</blockquote>

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