All eyes were on presidential candidate and sitting Vice President Kamala Harris this week as the Democratic National Convention kicked off. One clip of Harris’s movements, in particular, got a lot of attention from those interested in military technology — the Vice President boarding an MV-22 tiltrotor on a short trip to the convention hall.
In a week of big White House airlift news, with the first flight of the president aboard the VH-92 Patriot as Marine One, many were wondering if this was Harris’s first ride aboard an Osprey, an aircraft that is still seeing serious fallout from a fatal crash last year that prompted a three-month-long grounding of the type globally.
