A Killing Design: Osprey Fatalities In The Top End – OpEd

In 2022, the US Army selected Bell Textron’s tiltrotor V280 as its Black Hawk replacement.  This caused more than a few eyebrows to rise in consternation.  The V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, flown by the Marine Corps and Special Operations Command, has had what can only be euphemistically regarded as a patchy record.  It has been...