Osprey (disambiguation)
An osprey is a medium-large fish-eating bird of prey. There are two species:
- Western osprey Pandion haliaetus, found across the Old and New World
- Eastern osprey Pandion cristatus, found in Australia
Osprey may also refer to:
Geography
- Osprey, Florida, a town in the United States
Video games
- Osprey, a cruiser class ship from the MMORPG Eve Online
- Osprey Gunner, a kill streak from the FPS Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Businesses
- Osprey Media, a Canadian publishing group of daily and weekly newspapers and specialty publications
- Osprey Publishing, a British publishing company that specializes in books on military history and military equipment
- Sandvik Osprey, a British metallurgical company
Military
- Operation Osprey
- Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, a tiltrotor aircraft in use by the US armed forces.
Sports
- Ospreys (rugby union), a Welsh rugby union team that plays its home matches in Swansea, Wales
- Missoula Osprey, a minor league baseball team in Missoula, Montana
- North Florida Ospreys, the athletic teams of the University of North Florida
- "Osprey", a sporting and social focus for female athletes at the University of Cambridge, England
Technology
- Osprey body armour, a body armour system used by the British military
- Osprey process, a spray forming process owned by Sandvik Osprey
- Osprey, a fault tolerant MapReduce-like system proposed in Osprey: Implementing MapReduce-Style Fault Tolerance in a Shared-Nothing Distributed Database
Transportation
Aircraft
(Chronological)
- Hawker Osprey (from 1932), the navalised carrier-borne version of the Hawker Hart biplane
- Fairchild SD-5 Osprey, (from 1960) American reconnaissance drone
- Osprey Osprey I (from 1970), Sport flying boat
- Osprey Osprey 2 (from 1973), Sport amphibian
- Monaghan Osprey (from 1973), glider
- Paraplane PSE-2 Osprey (from 1990s), an American powered parachute design
- Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey (from 1989), tiltrotor aircraft manufactured by Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing
Ships
- HMS Osprey, five ships and a shore establishment of the British Royal Navy
- USFS Osprey, a U.S. Bureau of Fisheries fishery patrol vessel in commission from 1913 to 1921
- USS Osprey, several ships of the United States Navy
- USS Osprey II (SP-928), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
- Osprey class coastal minehunter, a class of United States Navy minehunting vessels
- Osprey dinghy, a sailing dinghy that was designed by Ian Proctor that can be sailed with a crew of two or three, with one trapeze
Trains
- LNER Class A4 4488 Union of South Africa steam locomotive, briefly renamed "Osprey" during a period in the 1980s and early 1990s.
- Osprey, the name carried by LNER Peppercorn Class A1 locomotive 60131 from its entry into service in October 1948 until its withdrawal in October 1965
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