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The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey (Hardcover)

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Based on in-depth research and hundreds of interviews, The Dream Machine recounts the Marines’ quarter-century struggle to get the Osprey into combat. Whittle takes the reader from the halls of the Pentagon and Congress to the war zone of Iraq, from the engineer’s drafting table to the cockpits of the civilian and Marine pilots who risked their lives flying the Osprey—and sometimes lost them. He reveals the methods, motives, and obsessions of those who designed, sold, bought, flew, and fought for the tiltrotor. These stories, including never before published eyewitness accounts of the crashes that made the Osprey notorious, not only chronicle an extraordinary chapter in Marine Corps history, but also provide a fascinating look at a machine that could still revolutionize air travel.

Author: Richard Whittle
Publisher:  Simon & Schuster, 2011, Hardcover
 464 pages
Weight: 1.7 pounds 6.1 x 1.4 x 9.2  
ISBN: 978-1-4165-6295-5