Thursday, January 22, 2026

It's a bug! No, a Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142


 

7 comments:

  1. I presume the yellow hardware is to hold the plane on the ground?

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  2. How many of those fell out of the sky before it was released? Obviously the Osprey program didn’t learn a lot.

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  3. Center of Gravity is crucial and I wonder how they maintain that when the wing rotates.

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  4. bad idea then, bad idea now

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  5. Just can not figure out why the tipping wing assembly did not make into a production design. The test planes worked very well, was not exactly high tech, but geeze, ehat is wrong with that over the widow maker Osprey that costs disgusting money thats grounded more than it flies. Doesn't figure, no common sense, lets just produce the most expensive highest maintenance hour thing feasibly possible.

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  6. L-T-V, one of the "Nifty- Fifty" Dow stocks from the mid-1960s.

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