While the Marine Corps-Special Operations tiltrotor aircraft's official title is the Osprey, its extraordinary developmental history is more reminiscent of the story of the legendary Phoenix.

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Leading European companies (including Aerospatiale, Westland, and MBB) have teamed together to form an organization called Eurofar for the purpose of developing and marketing a tiltrotor aircraft for commercial and military markets.

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Unfortunately, the same questions might well be posed today about another aerospace technology in which the United States currently enjoys a decisive competitive advantage thanks to a farsighted and ambitious Defense Department program and the congressional support it has long received: the V-22 "Osprey" tiltrotor aircraft.

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