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I must have caught the cranial rectumitis from the guy who decided to put two separate engine and rotor systems on the wingtips of the original XV-15. Even the slightest asymmetry of lift from one side to the other and the thing rolls over and kills everyone every single time. Because you’re lifting the aircraft by solely its wingtips it has to be structurally built like a brick. Because of the either engine hiccups everybody dies scenario an enormous drive shaft system from one wingtip to the other had to be installed creating yet another battleship heavy band-aid for bad design anchoring this turd to the ground. An aircraft designer with a brain would have mounted the rotor system on a central pivoting pylon above the craft that would allow the craft to fly hands-off without a computer controller balanced like a pendulum under the rotor in hover mode and allowing the pylon to pivot forward then placing the rotor system in front of the craft much like a conventional single engine propeller aircraft for forward flight. But No!, that would be too simple and obvious. We had to pick the frigging Rube Goldberg design and see if we could do what shouldn’t be done. Anyway, we’ve paid dearly for this ignorance and arrogance. Decades and years later, Billions and Millions of taxpayer dollars later, Way too many dead marines without a single enemy bullet later, It is time to scrap the HoverBrick and stop trying to cheat the laws of gravity and physics when we can work with them and build the cheap simple more efficient more stable more reliable craft we really wanted.
Quite frankly if you can’t see what’s so obviously wrong with the V-22 Ostrich then you don’t know the fundamentals of rotorcraft stability, control, and effective configuration, and should not presume to mock those of us aerospace wizards who make things happen everyday in the for-profit end of the industry.