[Rhodes22-list] airplane question for Brad or anybody

[Mike Cheung]

Sounds like you got to see a V-22 Osprey.  The Marines are using those to
replace their workhorse twin rotor helicopters (or at least that's what they
told Congress).  

Did it look like the bird at this link? 
http://www.boeing.com/rotorcraft/military/v22/index.htm

Mike C


Joe Babb wrote:
> 
> While we were docked at Mackey's Marina last week I saw an odd sort of 
> plane take off and wondered if you
> might know what kind it is.  I think it is probably of the vertical take 
> off variety.  It's two propellors looked huge in relation
> to the rest of the plane but by the time I saw it, they were in the 
> "normal" forward direction.  It looked like something out of a science 
> fiction movie.
> Joe
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