Bell/Agusta AB-609 Tilt Rotor Aircraft

This Bell/Agusta AB-609 gave a great account at Farnborough 2008 and did its hover part of the display right in front of us.Again sorry about the wind noise

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• Farnborough
• 2008
• Bell/Agusta
• AB-609
• Tilt
• Rotor

[Carlbotten1971]

When in plane mode exceptionaly quiet

[iamthefatstig]

Brilliant. Could not believe the speed of the transition.

[mountainrn]

Perfect Med-Evac system.....

[BabyRay55]

@Atomicskull Boeing teamed up with Bell in a 50-50 joint effort to create the V-22 as a matter of fact. Trying to market an aircraft such as the 609 during what amounted to a worldwide economic collapse surely didn't help its chances of success as well as the other issues it had in development. Sad. It's a great achievement!

[Wellwellwellwell1]

@iamthefatstig Well, from what I could tell, the forward momentum allowed for there to be enough lift until the rotors got into position. It's a beautiful system.

[Atomicskull]

@sasquatch1366 Actually this is pretty much directly based on the Bell Helicopter XV-15. The V-22 was developed by Boeing without the benefit of Bell's decades of experience with tilt rotor aircraft. They should never have handed it off to a company that had no experience with this type of aircraft.

[Klashido]

can't hear it when it in plane mode

[RektalFlottenAdmiral]

with the forward tilted rotors it looks scary as hell...

[sasquatch1366]

@littlec916 tilt rotors use less fuel the helicopter when there in "airplane mode" due to the design of turbo prop engines.

[sasquatch1366]

@sketchupto3drad this came after the v-22 tilit rotors have been around since the 60's

[sketchupto3drad]

@ARMOROID5000 thats why they made the v22.

[littlec916]

@mountainrn whats wrong with helicopters? they use way less fuel.