Osprey V-22 expensive 20 year project stillin the making

According to a Time Magazine reporter Mark Thompson speaking on my local NPR station one hundred twenty million dollars a piece for the 20 year project V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor plane that began at a 20 billion dollar budget project.

Dick Cheney when he was Gerald Ford's Secretary of Defense tried to kill this project that can fly like a helicopter or a plane. The engines rotate up as a helicopter and can be switched down and forward as a plane.

If you are below 2200 feet and lose power during an engine position switch you are doomed. This is a combat assault aircraft designed to take troops into positions of battle. The machine guns on board would be a 1,000 pound a piece, but too heavy so machine gun is attached instead to the inside rear of the plane and shoots puney bullets.

Obiviously, as radical as the V-22 is the younger pilots rather than older intuitive pilots will be willing to fly the Osprey V-22 air craft.

President General Eisenhower upon leaving office warned "be leary of the Industrial War Machine". This statement means be careful...because for a few big industries there is lots of money to be made during war time.