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Clare Cross

V22 Osprey

I'd love to think that the designers of this real 'tilt rotor' military aircraft were inspired by a certain SHADAIR aircraft seen in 'Ordeal'.

Marc Martin

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Except it's probably the other way around... the folks who made UFO were looking at concept art for proposed real vehicles to get inspiration for the fictional craft they designed.

Clare Cross

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But I doubt the Osprey itself was on the drawing board in 1969.

Griff

Re: V22 Osprey

Hello,

But, the LTV-XC142 was (1964-65) ...

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Or, the Canadair CL-84 DYNAVERT.

But, all that aside, design-wise I still think the SHADO tilt-rotor has the edge on all of them... okay, I'm biased.

Best to all,

Griff

TRT

Re: V22 Osprey

The Bell X-22 was 1966.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-22

Ducted fan tilt rotor… it actually looks vaguely reminiscent of cloud base.

On 4 Jul 2017, at 17:43, Griff [via SHADO] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello,

But, the LTV-XC142 was (1964-65) ...

Please see here for more

Or, the Canadair CL-84 DYNAVERT.

But, all that aside, design-wise I still think the SHADO tilt-rotor has the edge on all of them... okay, I'm biased.

Best to all,

Griff

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Clare Cross

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And yet none of the 'real world' examples from the 1960s seemed to have made it beyond the prototype stage; which explains why their existence was not foremost in my mind.

In this respect, I'd say that the SHADO tilt-rotor was somewhat more successful...

(Even if it did exist only in Paul Foster's mind!)

I still say the designer of the Osprey was a UFO fan!