Unusual military aircraft spotted at Sumburgh
PLANE watchers at Sumburgh airport were treated to an unusual spectacle on Sunday when a tiltrotor military aircraft made a short appearance.
The Bell Boing V-22 Osprey looks like a cross of a helicopter and a plane, and is known as a tiltrotor military aircraft.
Belonging to the US Air Force, the aircraft can function as a conventional helicopter or as a high speed turboprop aircraft.
She did not land at Sumburgh.
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