[hellotomyrars]

Bell also basically had this same exact dream of tilt-rotors when they were designing and building the V-22. This was a huge part of the sales pitch of titlrotor development in general at the time.

I’m still highly skeptical of where this kind of vehicle, even if you can make it very quiet, fits in to reality. There are so many hurdles to adoption in the regulatory aspect alone that it seems intractable, but the economic aspects feel like the true nail in the coffin.