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V-22 Osprey, whatcha got /hr/?

One of my absolute favorite aircraft.
>> Anonymous
Yeah all my favourite things have tons of death during development, too.
>> Anonymous
>>444520

Not that many, just a couple of high profile ones. The most concerning thing isn't safety, it's how shitty it is compared to cost.
>> Anonymous
>>444517
On behalf of /k/ I must say that we frown upon your liking of the osprey. :(

120 million piece of junk aircraft.
>> Anonymous
I never said it was the most effective, cost-efficient or safest aircraft, I was just saying it looks cool.
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Knew I had some somewhere.
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>> Anonymous
Is it just me or are these things just surface to air fodder.
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>> Anonymous
Reminds me of the craft in Terminator 2 (maybe 1?)
>> Anonymous
>>444561

Hunter-Killers.
>> Anonymous
Get into the chopper!
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>> Anonymous
>>444517
Wasn't it like 20 years or so before they ever shifted the prop angle in flight? like they always knew that shit was flakey? Computer enhanced controls must have made it seem like it was gonna work, finally.
>> anon
I think I could get some pics... but then again it would be illegal for me to take them.. seeing as how I work right next to, oh I don't know, 2 or 3 V-22 squadrons... hahaha! They are cool to watch fly around, and are very nimble for a rotary-wing aircraft. I've seen them do some pretty cool shit since they've been out. And they're fairly fast too. Just don't call them 'choppers' or anything helicopter-related. They're Tilt-rotor aircraft. Entirely different category. Lol, like I could stop you from calling them such anyway... had to ask.
>> Anonymous
>>444538
You don't speak for /k/.

The V-22 is perfectly safe. It's only issues are limited applications and expense.
>> Anonymous
I was on an Osprey this summer. They're pieces of shit. They're the killingest aircraft of all time if I remember my history correctly. Over 60 deaths during the testing phase.

The POS Rolls-Royce engines they use were designed for horizontal, not vertical applications, so they spill/squirt oil all over the place when oriented vertically. The AF's solution? Wipe it all off and replace the oil EVERY FUCKING FLIGHT.

The fly-by-wire system and lack of actual mechanical control devices ensures that a simple computer crash is fatal for all hands. That one happened at a major Pentagon demonstration a few years ago.

You can't put guns on the front because of the avionics. You can't put guns on the sides because of the huge engines. You can open the door and put guns in the back, but who really cares? You can't drop men out the sides because of the downdraft from the huge engines. When you get right down to it, this plane is nothing but a cargo plane that has the option of flying really slow.

One of my buddies is a crew chief down in Florida on this flying turd, and even he doesn't have a single compliment to bestow on it, especially coming from the Blackhawk, which he absolutely loved. Fuck the V-22.
>> Anonymous
>>445418
Can I get some Parmesan with that pasta?
>> Anonymous
my uncle worked on this project until his retirement. he was an engineer. never spoke about it, but he did win awards for his work on the jump jet harrier.
>> Anonymous
The Harrier was so versatile even the Marines bought & love them. The Osprey seemingly ignored Harrier engineering to their own dismay.
>> Anonymous
>>445418

Wow. That's some intense angst for someone who has never been within a mile of an Osprey.

BTW, the Osprey is now packing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD72TwM8l0o
>> Anonymous
>>445484
>>445432
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>>444517
God you trolls are ornery tonight.
>> Anonymous
Harrier >> Osprey
>> Anonymous
"The POS Rolls-Royce engines they use were designed for horizontal, not vertical applications, so they spill/squirt oil all over the place when oriented vertically. The AF's solution? Wipe it all off and replace the oil EVERY FUCKING FLIGHT."

Our 53's and 46's do this.

"If it ain't leaking, somethings wrong"

I'm a 53 Powerline Mech in the Marine Corps, just an FYI.
>> Anonymous
>>447202
thats funny because all the osprays that i have worked on have never had that problem.
>> Anonymous
>>447210
Somethings wrong with them. Did you remember to put the oil in?