Great picture of the V-22 Osprey. I’m into boats more than aircraft. But that thing shouldn’t fly. Like a bumblebee that also cannot fly, it must consume bunches of fuel. What’s it’s range?
Range depends on what you load it with. In ferry mode, with one in-flight refueling enroute, the MV-22 can deploy over 2100 miles. With a HMMWV slung externally, it can go 50-some miles, drop off the vehicle and RTB. Very dependent on the load.
TC
Definitely a strange-looking bird. Bumblebees and hummingbirds are able to fly because of the phenomenon of dynamic stall. Helicopter blades can do it, so perhaps it is also at work in some regimes of the Osprey flight profile (but I have not heard of it).