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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
I know they're troubled machines, but that's impressive tech.
Sadly, the Army says they will be acquiring tilt rotor AC. Bad choice. There are things a tilt rotor AC can't do, like descend into a very small hover hole.
Marines created some of their own problems, I think. Air Force replacedH-53 helicopters with V-22 tilt-rotors, so they set up the pilot controls with cyclic and collective, like a helicopter. Marines for ???? reason decided to give their tilt-rotors a throttle and stick, like an airplane. So when the pilots are operating like a helicopter, Air Force guys have helicopter controls, while Marines experienced with helicopters are trying to operate like a helicopter but with airplane controls. I don't know for sure if that caused any crashes, but it seems monumentally stupid.
Been a bunch of weird stuff flying around here today, several pairs of fighter jets, a couple of refueling tankers, a plane with the radar dome on the top & a pair of those. Guess Biden is getting us into another war.
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.... When I was living outside Rochester, NY, you could see the contrails from the bombing runs over in Iraq... I knew they were coming before the bombs hit! LOL!
Still a piece of shit.
ReplyDeleteIt's a machine that needs "five nines" reliability. Should have been left experimental for another 20 or 30 years.
ReplyDeleteThey make a sound that is like no other, and it always makes me stop and listen, even if I don't see them.
ReplyDeleteSadly, the Army says they will be acquiring tilt rotor AC. Bad choice. There are things a tilt rotor AC can't do, like descend into a very small hover hole.
ReplyDeleteToo many moving parts and at least 50 years ahead of modern engineering to be "safe" and reliable.
ReplyDelete"Troubled" is not the right word.
ReplyDeleteIt is a DEADLY contraption that should be permanently grounded.
Murphy machine.
DeleteMarine Corps death trap.
ReplyDeleteMarines created some of their own problems, I think. Air Force replacedH-53 helicopters with V-22 tilt-rotors, so they set up the pilot controls with cyclic and collective, like a helicopter. Marines for ???? reason decided to give their tilt-rotors a throttle and stick, like an airplane. So when the pilots are operating like a helicopter, Air Force guys have helicopter controls, while Marines experienced with helicopters are trying to operate like a helicopter but with airplane controls. I don't know for sure if that caused any crashes, but it seems monumentally stupid.
DeleteBeen a bunch of weird stuff flying around here today, several pairs of fighter jets, a couple of refueling tankers, a plane with the radar dome on the top & a pair of those. Guess Biden is getting us into another war.
ReplyDeleteLots of air tankers heading for the ME, it's been reported.
DeleteWinner Winner Chicken Dinner....
DeleteWhen I was living outside Rochester, NY, you could see the contrails from the bombing runs over in Iraq... I knew they were coming before the bombs hit! LOL!
made too many changes to make it fit into an aircraft carrier.
ReplyDeleteIt's impressive tech - when it all works.
ReplyDeleteI've seen too many military flightlines full of hangar queens to ever want to ride in one.
That said, the 40-year old CH-46s had to go.
Airplanes age like men and fine wine.
Helicopters age like women and milk.
Nothing but a troop killer…get rid of it.
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