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Old 21st Mar 2013, 14:02
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SansAnhedral
 
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So....elephant in the room...

Where is the flight performance data and/or footage?

They sure seem to be patting themselves on the back for designing and building it (in 6 months or 12 months, depending on which press release you read), why not tell the world just how great actually performs?

If it first flew in mid-2011 tethered, what's it been up to the past 2 years?

*edit*

Also noticed this interesting little tidbit

The aerodynamic properties of the rotor blades were designed by AgustaWestland and Rotor Systems Research LLC of USA.
Rotor System Research LLC....a consultancy (with one of the most ridiculously laughable websites I have seen in ages) consisting of none other than John Leishman, who has for years espoused a staunch anti-tiltrotor mantra (I recall a particularly contentious AHS incident a few years back). Oh the irony!

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