Yesterday, Nairobi residents reported sighting some weird looking choppers doing rounds in the city. At around noon, 3 of these landed at Kenyatta University together with another chopper thought to be ‘Marine One’ – The President of the United State’s official helicopter.
The ‘weird looking’ choppers go by the name ‘Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey’. They are not your everyday helicopters. They are super expensive and have features out of these world. In the following slideshow, we look at these features.
Dual Purpose
It is not exactly a Helicopter but an operational tiltrotor; Meaning it can take off vertically like a helicopter or fold its wings to fly at fast speed like a fixed wing.
