And therefore; added weight. The bane of all aircraft.elmayerle said:Structurally, they are a pain; requiring the addition of several structural members to the nacelle structure.
elmayerle said:other projects in work or test on the V-22.
My goodness! They will have to change the name from Osprey to Porcupine.flateric said:
The prototype hardware is ready to ship to Pax River. Finding an aircraft with the free time for the mod effort and then testing seems to be the hangup. That all the available aircraft are early production and thus not exactly the same as current models off the line adds a few complications in that the nacelle structure evolved over time. Too, there've been field mods that are not necessarily reflected on the drawings and models. We ran into this modifying Bell's current testbed/technical demonstrator aircraft for the first demonstration effort.Avimimus said:Has this reached hardware yet?
Personally, I think it enhances the looks.
Well, there's the one that appeared as a small picture in Combat Aircraft a few months back and at least one other intended to add on to that. Both are aimed at resolving known problem issues. More, though, I can't say at this time since I'm intimately involved with both. I will say that first one is in field testing now and doing very, very well; this means that the last quarter ofthe year is likely to get very hectic for me.yasotay said:elmayerle said:other projects in work or test on the V-22.
... such as? ;D
elmayerle said:Well, there's the one that appeared as a small picture in Combat Aircraft a few months back and at least one other intended to add on to that. Both are aimed at resolving known problem issues. More, though, I can't say at this time since I'm intimately involved with both. I will say that first one is in field testing now and doing very, very well; this means that the last quarter ofthe year is likely to get very hectic for me.yasotay said:elmayerle said:other projects in work or test on the V-22.
... such as? ;D