So simply put, the tilt rotor technology is not nearly as new as it is being portrayed.

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So far, the accidents that have happened are not necessarily linked to tilt rotor technology but other problems that can be and have been resolved.

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No system yet invented promises to perform that mission more efficiently and cost-effectively than the revolutionary tilt-rotor Osprey.

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The size and weight of the ITV was intentionally limited so that it fits inside the cargo area of the Corps' new V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.

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For example, one company widely mentioned as a potential target of activists is Textron, the Providence, Rhode Island-based industrial conglomerate that builds everything from the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor to smart cluster bombs.

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The Osprey, readers of this space will recall, is a remarkable "tilt-rotor" airplane, capable of taking off and landing vertically but able to rotate its turboprop engines in flight so as to fly like a conventional aircraft.

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Most of the difficulties that have been associated with the program over the 11 years that this type of airplane has been flying have been not related to the tilt-rotor technology itself but other ancillary events that have caused mishaps.

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