Gotta watch those V22 salesmen!
If the V22 adds payload by making running takeoffs, when they use that weight from a ship, the V-22 will have to issue water wings to its passengers, cause it will hit the water at the lip of the deck, and sink like a stone, and will need sonar to navigate. The weights I have published are those it can hover with.
Here is that discussion of V22 performance, again. The V22 carries half the payload of a helicoipter, has no range advantage, and does not have the transport productivity of a helicopter:
http://webpages.charter.net/nlappos/...comparison.pdf