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Would anybody here purchase a 1/72 V-22 Osprey? Say, if Corgi or HM or Witty produced one? Weight, size and price issues aside, does this bird excite anyone?

According to its advocates, the V-22 ...

• lifts three times as much, flies twice as fast and goes five times as far.
• is more survivable, more maintainable and more deployable.

According to its adversaries, Osprey problems are so numerous and unresolvable (click here and here), the aircraft is an unmitigated failure. And a deadly one at that.

[mustangdriver]

I would set one. THey fly over my beach house all the time out of Cherry Point.

[STARMAN 352ND]

Maybe.....I'll wait and see what schemes come out first.
JP

[Armour Addict]

I'd love to have a CV-22 in 1/48!

AA

[FormerViperDriver]

I would immediately buy a 1/48 (preferred) or 1/72 MV-22 or CV-22. It is a revolutionary aircraft, and it's in service for good. If we had cancelled past projects for the kinds of problems the Osprey experienced in development, we would never have seen any of the Century series fighters, nor probably any jet prior to the 1980s. In fact the F-16 would not exist, based on the accident rate early in its operational career. I won't even mention the B-58 or B-47 (well, I just did, didn't I). There are always progress-denying nay-sayers somewhere.

Now the one significant problem for a diecast Osprey will be the liveries: I'm afraid there won't be much variety, with only the USMC and USAF variants being somewhat different in details and colors. But it is a truly important aeroplane that belongs in any modern airpower enthusiast's collection. I hope someone makes one some day soon.

FVD

[djjeffhall]

Yes, absolutely yes, I would purchase an Osprey. I used to live right near one of the airbases in Wilmington, DE were they were testing the Osprey. Please, some one make one in 1:72. (Okay, make one in 1:48 for FormerViperDriver too. He's a good guy even if he does like weird scaled aircraft. Please take that in the jester like manner offered. )

[Hoverbug]

It'd be a big one and not many exciting schemes as of yet. It'd be hard to imagine any of the usual suspects taking this one on at the moment. If they do well overseas, there might be a good market in a few years.

[jim]

I may be wrong (it has been known) but I seem to remember a plane like this around in the late 50s or early 60s.
it was scrapped as unworkable.

Is this just another malfunction of my memory or can anyone here pass comment on the subject?

It irritates the heck out of me when I get these little memory flashes and I cannot just put them into some order.

[Gort]

Originally Posted by jim

I may be wrong (it has been known) but I seem to remember a plane like this around in the late 50s or early 60s.
it was scrapped as unworkable.

That was my saucer on a bad day, Jim. Threw a rod. Had to tow it back to Melmac. All’s well now.

[Hoverbug]

Originally Posted by jim

I may be wrong (it has been known) but I seem to remember a plane like this around in the late 50s or early 60s.
it was scrapped as unworkable.

Is this just another malfunction of my memory or can anyone here pass comment on the subject?

It irritates the heck out of me when I get these little memory flashes and I cannot just put them into some order.

The most immediate parallel is Bell's XV-3 which was the grandfather of the Osprey. It had a problems with vibration and was not a viable operational platforn at the time, but it generally validated the tiltrotor concept. The breakthrough came in the late '60s with a floating hub design that led in turn to the XV-15. There were a number of other VTOL concepts at the time. Here is an excellent summary:

http://www.aiaa.org/tc/vstol/wheel.html