Image Cache: The MV-22 Osprey is such a damn photogenic aircraft. It can be at night, it can be during the day, it can be in a rainbow, it can be on a commando carrier, it can be during cleaning, it can be any place and any time and the tiltrotor aircraft would always look good because it’s just so kick arse. Here’s a MV-22 Osprey launching from the from amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) in support of a long-range raid exercise. It looks like it knows where the highway to heaven is.
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Compare it to this 66-year-old masterpiece taken by Andreas Feininger for Life magazine:
The Slinky-like light pattern was produced by a time-exposure of the light-tipped rotor blades of a grounded helicopter as it took off back in 1949. Navy photographer Eric C. Burgett employed a similar light-painting technique over six decades later to create his own eye-popping — and slightly more colourful — coiled pattern.
Image Credit: US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Eric C. Burgett/Released