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For many years, as a FW/RW pilot I wanted to fly tilt-rotor; I believed the hype. Back then the argument was who would be best able to fly it - a fixed wing pilot, or a helicopter pilot.
Reality kicked in when I saw that the whole design concept is flawed, too complicated and too expensive. The only advantage is it's higher cruise speed, it loses out everywhere else to helicopters, both in cost and in performance.
Despite some at the top of the tree having made a career out of the concept, and being duty bound to show that it can work, it's broken.
They tried to build a Ferrari to do the work of a LandRover.
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