After 25 years of development and dozens of lives lost in testing, the troubled Osprey tilt-rotor craft is finally heading to Iraq -- although in a* very* limited role.
David Axe and Ron Laurenzo took a dynamite, mostly positive two-part look at the craft in February -- and came away impressed.* Wired* did its own, generally upbeat profile, in January of '05.
This video, from the New York Times' website, is way more gloomy, with some cringe-inducing crash footage.