So the V-22 went to Farnborough. Seems that Bell wants to sell that POS to other governments to offset the cost of it's development and production, but at about 70 million a copy there are not too many governments who are going to snap up a fleet of them.

The first squadron of V-22's is scheduled to be deployed next fall and, at the moment, the Marines have been promised 360 of these planes. At a cost of about $70 million each — the total program cost is $49 billion - the Osprey is one of the Marines' most expensive weapons. The Marines have staked their future on this craft, and have about 40 flying today at various American bases, but none overseas or in combat.
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Michael A. Redenbaugh, chief executive of Bell Helicopter, said his company was working with the Marines to try to reduce the cost to around $58 million a plane, and he predicted that it could be done in four years. But for countries whose defense budgets are only a fraction of the Pentagon’s, even $58 million can be a high price for a single plane.
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The Marine Corps had made a big show of announcing it would fly two Ospreys over the Atlantic to arrive before the show - for the first time - to demonstrate its long-range capability. But, on the way over, one of the planes developed engine problems in bad weather and made an unplanned landing in Iceland, where a $2 million engine was replaced before it could continue on its way.
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One of its biggest critics has been Vice President Dick Cheney, who tried to kill the program in the late 1980’s when he was secretary of defense. But his attempts were rebuffed in Congress, where Bell Helicopter and Boeing led a lobbying effort that kept the program alive. Work on the V-22 is spread over 40 states and 200 Congressional districts, giving it powerful grass-roots support.

Besides its safety record, a big criticism of the plane is its high cost. It will largely replace the CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters, which date back to the Vietnam era but cost one-quarter the price of the Osprey.
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"We'll pay a little more, but we'll get a heck of a lot," Gen. John G. Castellaw said at the news conference. "The Marine Corps has a lot of wants and needs, but not a lot of money. It's up to me to balance out wants and needs of the Marine Corps with available resources and I think we can do it."

The argument that the Osprey will be a good and viable replacement for the 46 is silly, if you look at the service record of the Sea Knight. Not only was the venerable CH-46 used by both the Navy and the Marine Corps, it's managed to remain in service for 40+ years, a tribute to some solid engineering and easy, accessible maintenance.

Had the Marine Corps (and Navy) chosen to update the Sea Knight airframe and invest in more research in rotary wing dynamics for things like the Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) which showed promise in overcoming the forward-speed limitations of all helicopter, the problemmatic Osprey might have died as a fledging in it's nest at Boeing/Bell.

Oh, and I love General Castellaw's remark "We'll pay a little more, but we'll get a heck of a lot" ... a little more than what? That's some serious inside-the-Pentagram thinking there folks. Back the future again, I wonder if the Osprey will have $400 milspec toilet seats/relief tubes?