Thursday, October 25, 2018

Weird looking plane


5 comments:

  1. They crashed a lot during testing and in early deployments, but they're a logical follow-on to helicopters. Marine One is scheduled to be an Osprey soon.

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  2. I was on the roof of a paper mill where I worked when two V22's in copter
    mode and 3 Blackhawks flew right over my at head at about 200 feet. It
    was a soul stirring moment!


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  3. They used them a bit in the recovery from Harvey a couple of years ago, which meant they overflew my home on the way to the Houston area. I had lots of helicopter traffic for about 2 months, and the occasional Osprey. They make an unmistakable, formidable inflight sound that usually makes the unfamiliar stop, look up, and say "what the Hell is THAT?"

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  4. They overfly our place on the NC coast almost every day - along with CH-53's, Cobras, and even Hueys. And the occasional Coast Guard Dolphin. Can definitely tell the difference in the sounds of all of them. Oh yeah, we get the occasional F-18 and Harrier - imagine we'll see some F-35's before too long ...

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