Originally Posted by
SansAnhedral
Now wheres FH1100....?
Didn't we have a link in one of the Osprey threads to a discussion of what the test pilots did at altitude after the Marana crash?
The abrupt roll they discovered when trying to induce VRS suggests that the following
"Tiltrotors are not susceptible to vortex ring," says Edwards. "We had to try really hard to get there."
may not be entirely accurate, and is at face value self-contradictory.
EDIT:
Summary of some Ospray VRS testing here.
Here is what I think that statement means:
It is very difficult to induce vortex ring state in a tilt rotor (609) but it can be done (as part of a test profile?).
Mr Edwards has been flying these things and I have not. He knows how those machines fly. It's the summary of what he's learned, and is trying to express to the general public, that has me puzzled.