Dear me.....the Osprey is a very unusual thing to fly....the Army will never be able to operate them things! Hang on a mo'......if a bunch of Jarheads can get it figured out....any fuzzy cheeked young Warrant Officer or Officeress should find it a piece of cake.
So then.....if one was to beep the Nacelles well forward....say right to the limit of aft cyclic control.....giving the aircraft a very nose high attitude but nacelles still pointing straight up.....you could make a helicopter type takeoff merely by leaving the nacelles where they are and applying forward cyclic to accelerate until you hit max forward speed for that particular Nacelle position then have to go on into airplane mode by rotating the nacelles fully forward?
Last edited by SASless; 17th Jul 2012 at 18:30.