On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:26 AM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

Oh, and while I'm here. No idea what it was doing, but when I was down at the beach on a day off on Tuesday one of these odd looking things was flying around:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey

The above made me curious, so I began googling. In the wikipedia article entitled "Future of the Royal Navy," toward the bottom under "Speculative Order," I discovered the following statement:

"Although nothing has been officially stated, the Royal Navy may have declared interest in the procurement of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, for operation in a number of different roles."

So possibly an evaluation flight?

Richard Aiken

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