And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
How dare the Marines stop riding around in slow, 50-year-old rattling-apart helicopters from the pre-Vietnam era, and switch to something that can fly into a beach assault at 350MPH, twice as fast as what it replaced!?
FTR, there have been 12 operational Osprey crashes since it went operational. You want to talk about which aircraft are unsafe? For comparison, there have been 260 crashes of F-18s, 233 crashes of F-16s, 133 crashes of F-15s, 21 crashes of F-22s, 29 crashes of F-35s, 390 crashes of UH-60s, and 88 peacetime crashes of CH-46s. You could look it up: https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/type/H46/1 People who don't know that shouldn't spew from their other end.
The Osprey is a Cadillac compared to the Phrog, in every respect, including safety.
APU or batteries to do all that reconfiguration - anyone can share? A lot of power needed to swing all that around into the stowed or deployed position.
Rube Goldberg would be proud. What a stupid idea. Talk about a solution nobody needed in search of a problem we didn't know we had. And people say with a straight face there's no such thing as a MIC that runs CONgress... Then pay $4200 for a hammer, or eleventy-billion dollars OVER budget on a flying turkey. Burn the whole fucking thing to the ground and start over. You can't cure this cancer. Hang every last one of them fuckers, save Massie.
Lots and lots of computer controlled components - V22 variants
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What could possibly go wrong…
ReplyDeleteOne of many US government boondoggles that should never have been allowed to fly.
DeleteOne day somebody in the Defense Department got tired of the Sea Knight "Phrog" CH-46 and the rushed this POS into production.
Everything, and it usually does.
DeleteHow dare the Marines stop riding around in slow, 50-year-old rattling-apart helicopters from the pre-Vietnam era, and switch to something that can fly into a beach assault at 350MPH, twice as fast as what it replaced!?
DeleteFTR, there have been 12 operational Osprey crashes since it went operational.
You want to talk about which aircraft are unsafe?
For comparison, there have been 260 crashes of F-18s, 233 crashes of F-16s, 133 crashes of F-15s, 21 crashes of F-22s, 29 crashes of F-35s, 390 crashes of UH-60s, and 88 peacetime crashes of CH-46s.
You could look it up:
https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/type/H46/1
People who don't know that shouldn't spew from their other end.
The Osprey is a Cadillac compared to the Phrog, in every respect, including safety.
The 375 V-22s only became operational in 2007.
DeleteVery cool but that's alot of potential failure points.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder they tend to cash.
So, it'll fit in a standard 1 car garage?
ReplyDeleteAPU or batteries to do all that reconfiguration - anyone can share? A lot of power needed to swing all that around into the stowed or deployed position.
ReplyDeleteIt has an APU according to the cutaway drawing on the internet. Question, how stealthy is it?
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Would you fly in one?
ReplyDeleteThe one aircraft I refused to ride in when I was a contractor. They had a bad reputation for crashing then.
ReplyDeletehere we go aga-
ReplyDeleteIs that a Transformer or a Decepticon ??
ReplyDeleteWon't catch me dead in one of those...
ReplyDeleteRube Goldberg would be proud.
ReplyDeleteWhat a stupid idea. Talk about a solution nobody needed in search of a problem we didn't know we had. And people say with a straight face there's no such thing as a MIC that runs CONgress... Then pay $4200 for a hammer, or eleventy-billion dollars OVER budget on a flying turkey.
Burn the whole fucking thing to the ground and start over. You can't cure this cancer. Hang every last one of them fuckers, save Massie.
I think this is the aircraft that is supposed to replace the Army's Blackhawk.
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