On Thu, 10 May 2018, 20:32 Richard Aiken, <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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:


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?

Intriguing.

I ought to check local news and see if there's any clue.

Good find though, cheers

tc