The video shows a helicopter. What’s the point or releasing this video without showing horizontal flight?
Cuz up until now, all other vids either show the Valor taxiing or hopping up and down a little —sorta boring.
Possibly because they are proceeding very deliberately through a test protocol that involves advancing the engines a little bit more on every flight.
They want to make sure that once they put the engines in the full-forward position, they can definitely bring them back into the vertical position.
Typically flight testing on a prototype is done very, very carefully. This goes double for aircraft of a new type, or that are using a new technology. In this case, there is new technology in a flight-critical system, namely the rotor tilt mechanism.
Also, they don't want a repeat of the painful development process of the V-22, during which there were several fatalities (followed by many more fatalities once the system had been accepted by the military).