“The gift that keeps on giving. Maybe if we throw a few hundred billion dollars more at the program this lemon will become a little less of a lemon.”
The basic idea is good. I hope they’ve worked out the problems and the MV-22 will stay operational.
That is where I disagree. Putting the lifting rotors on the wingtips guarantees that any disparity in thrust will roll the craft over and kill everybody. Then the wings had to be made so much stronger and heavier since they lift from the very tip only while hovering. Then a massive drive shaft had to go from one wingtip to the other to guarantee a chance of surviving the loss of a single engine. If this aircraft had been designed with a center-line thrust rotor on a raised pylon that pivoted from above the center of gravity to in front of the craft it would be simple stable and efficient. The design was/is/and always will be unnecessarily complex, inherently unstable, and inefficient with correspondingly poor performance.