Navy Green-Lights Development of New Helicopter-Airplane Hybrid

Jointly built by helicoptering powerhouses Boeing and Textron, the V-22 Osprey is a marvel of engineering. Launching and landing vertically, flying at speeds in excess of 300 mph and as high as five miles in the sky, the Osprey can carry up to 32 troops (or 15 tons of cargo) into combat, to battlefields as far as 1,000 miles distant.

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