BILL COFFMAN'S SPITFIRE STUDIO COLLECTION
No. 8432. Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey (166687 c/n 90081) US Marine Corps
Photographed at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, August 2008, by Bill Coffman

Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey

12/31/2008. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "Assigned to the Marines' Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 266 (VMM-266) "Fighting Griffins" at MCAS New River, North Carolina, the crew is demonstrating the computer controlled stowing sequence, folding the rotor blades, swiveling the engines 90° forward and twisting the wing 90° parallel over the length of the fuselage."

Read the type remarks on page 12692.


Created December 31, 2008