Bell XV-15 Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft at the Udvar-Hazy Center
The XV-15 Tilt Rotor Technology demonstrator was the culmination of efforts begun in the early 1950s to produce an aircraft that could take off, land, and hover like a helicopter, but could fly with the speed of an airplane.
Image Number: WEB10856-2008
Credit: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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