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Improved Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft Is Now Part Of President’s Escort -- McClatchy News
WASHINGTON — When the president lifts off from the White House lawn, he’s joined by a few new wingmen.
On President Barack Obama’s vacation flight Saturday to Martha’s Vineyard, new MV-22 Ospreys made their debut escorting his staff, Secret Service agents and the news media – although not the chief executive himself – to the island off the Massachusetts coast.
The Osprey is a tilt-rotor aircraft, which takes off vertically like a helicopter and then can turn its rotors in the air to fly like an airplane. A Marine Corps news release said the Osprey could “fly twice as fast, carry three times as much and fly four times the distance of the older CH-46E helicopter it is replacing.”
“It’s a lot faster than helicopters are, and can land in most of the places helicopters can land,” said Richard Whittle, a senior scholar at the Wilson Center who wrote a book on the Osprey in 2010. “It’s not a perfect helicopter, it’s not a perfect airplane, but it combines the most desirable features of both.”
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