Thanks…. I have always wondered what the end result would have been if this aircraft had been modified in the mid-1970s with a computer-controlled FBW system like what had been developed for the F-16.

Would there have been a successful VSTOL transport in service with the USMC by Desert Storm?

This aircraft was to have a cargo & troop load similar to the CH-46, CH-3/HH-3, and the MV-22 Osprey.