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hr V-22 Osprey Anonymous
My favorite aircraft. = P GO GO GO!
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It looks a bit wobbly in the air, no?
>> Anonymous
it has a tendency during the transition from vertical to horizontal flight to roll over and plow into the ground, killing all on board.
>> Anonymous
>>159333
They fixed that problem with rotor design changes.
It was in the news for quite a while.
>> hr V-22 Osprey Anonymous
that was fixed. It's still not in mainstream use, but it looks nice, and is better than a standard helicopter.
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>>159358
the other problem that was probably partially responsible for that too was the habit or getting caught in it's own rotor wash when descending rapidly (ring vortex state). This is a known problem for helicopters, but I imagine particularly a problem for the Osprey because of it's relavtively small rotors. They fixed THAT one by putting software limits on the decent rate, aka, avoiding the problem conditions.
>> Anonymous
Its a bad ass bird...I should get a free flight on one next time its on base...I work for the Navy as a flight sim engineer for physiology training. We're doing a trainer for stick dyslexia (a common pilot error for landing this thing) and OBOGS failure (Hypoxia symptom recognition)...

this has given me the opportunity to climb into the cockpit and take a BUNCH of pictures which I'm using as texture source for the 3d cockpit model I'm making for x-plane's v-22 osprey. Bad ass.
>> Anonymous
>>159535
Can't argue with results.
>>159526
So post said pictures, damn you.
>> Anonymous
All I'm gonna say is:
Amarillo
>> Anonymous
It's got a linkage all the way across the wing so that if one engine fails the other can drive both rotors. yowzers.
>> Anonymous
I live in Amarillo, luckily. And within a few miles of the main production facility. I should run by and snap a few pictures.
>> Anonymous
i like the osprey from HL1 lolz
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>> Anonymous
The osprey suked, but now it seems they are fixing it's problems, maybe it will turn out as a nice heli