U.S. Marines Jump from Osprey (YouTube video)

Youtube ^ | January 13, 2009 | 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit / Blackfive

[Stoat]

A nice video that I thought FReepers might enjoy  :-)

 

YouTube - U.S. Marines Jump from Osprey

 

Video description posted at YouTube:

B-roll of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit conducting a parachute Drop at Fort Picket. Scenes include a helicopter flying overhead, Marines jumping from the aircraft and landing in a field below. Produced by 22nd MEU.

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22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit

Urban Osprey landing / aerial operations photos here

090110-M-8752R-001

 

 

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Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - V-22 Osprey -- V-22 Osprey Home

 

V-22 Osprey

 

Overview

The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is the first aircraft designed from the ground up to meet the needs of the Defense Department's four U.S. armed services. The tiltrotor aircraft takes off and lands like a helicopter. Once airborne, its engine nacelles can be rotated to convert the aircraft to a turboprop airplane capable of high-speed, high-altitude flight.

The V-22 Osprey provides unique capabilities offering:

• increased speed because it's twice as fast as a helicopter.
• much longer range resulting in greater mission versatility than a helicopter.
• multi-mission capability: amphibious assault, combat support, long-range special ops infiltration and exfiltration, transport, search and rescue, medevac, and, in the future, tanker capability.

The V-22 Osprey aircraft:

• can transport 24 combat troops, 20,000 pounds of internal or up to 15,000 pounds of external cargo using its medium lift and vertical takeoff and landing capabilities
• meets U.S. Navy requirements for combat search and rescue, fleet logistics support, and special warfare support
• matches the U.S. Special Operations Command's requirement for a high-speed, long-range, vertical lift aircraft
• can be stored aboard an aircraft carrier or assault ship because the rotors can fold and the wing rotate
• has air-to-air refueling capability, the cornerstone of the ability to self-deploy

Boeing is responsible for the fuselage and all subsystems, digital avionics, and fly-by-wire flight-control systems. Boeing partner Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., is responsible for the wing, transmissions, empennage, rotor systems and engine installation.

The V-22 provides a significant increase in operational range over the legacy systems it will replace and is the only vertical platform capable of rapid self-deployment to any theater of operation worldwide.

For more information, read the V-22 Osprey (PDF) overview.

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Bell Helicopter - V-22 Military Aircraft

Bell V-22

 

The Bell-Boeing V-22
Delivers like no other.

 

Range, speed and flexibilty. Hard rules once defined by the limitations of legacy helicopters. The V-22 offers twice the speed, three times the payload, five times the range, and can fly more than twice as high as older rotorcraft it is destined to replace.

 

It is the world's first production tilt rotor combining the vertical performance of a helicopter with the high speed and range of a fixed wing aircraft...

 

...The V-22 not only rewrites the rules of mobility, it mobilizes the rules of engagement.

 

Inside the Osprey

 

At twice the speed of a helicopter, the Osprey carries 24 combat troops, or up to 20,000 pounds (9,072 kg) of internal cargo or 15,000 pounds (6,804 kg) of external cargo. Its cargo bay can accommodate nine litters with medical personnel and equipment.

 

 

Powerful and Reliable Engines

 

Two Rolls-Royce AE1107C Liberty turboshaft engines supply power for the V-22, producing 6,150 shp (4,586 kW) each. For safe, reliable flight, the V-22's cross-coupled transmissions allow either engine, separately or together, to power the rotors.

 

 

Ship Shaped

 

Designed with folding rotors and a rotating wing, the V-22 fits nicely in the maritime base. It stores compactly on board an aircraft carrier or assault ship in a minimal footprint. With air-to-air refueling capability, it meets the U.S. Navy requirements for combat search and rescue, fleet logistics support, and special warfare support.

 

 

Multi-Missioned

 

The V-22's multi-mission capability is like no other. From all manner of assault, support or transport to whatever the need requires in a speed-to-scene, coupled with a hovering capability, the Osprey delivers faster, better - and without peer.

 

Production Factoids:

• The V-22 is produced under a strategic alliance between Bell Helicopter and The Boeing Company.
  
   
• Under the current program of record, the Marine Corps will purchase 360 MV-22s for missions including amphibious assault, ship-to-objective maneuvers and sustained operations ashore.
  
   
• The Navy is also slated to get 48 MV-22s, which could be used for fleet logistic support and search and rescue.
  
   
• The Air Force Special Operations Command will acquire 50 CV-22 variants, with enhanced capabilities tailored for their unique mission requirements. The CV-22 will reach initial operational capability in 2009, while the Marines' variant will be ready to deploy in late 2007.
  
   
• The first operational Marine Osprey squadron, VMM-263, stood up at New River,NC, on March 3, 2006, with many of its pilots going through training now at VMMT-204. The first operational AFSOC unit to receive the CV-22 is the 1st Special Operations Wing, Hurlburt Field, FL, on November 16, 2006.

 

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Fort Pickett Website

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Related to the posted YouTube video:

Marines conduct flight operations in urban Virginia

Marines conduct flight operations in urban Virginia 

1/10/2009  By Cpl. Justin M. Martinez, 22nd MEU 

FORT PICKETT, Va. — 

FORT PICKETT, Va. — MV-22B Osprey aircraft from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 (Reinforced), 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, stopped traffic and turned heads as they landed in several areas in and around Richmond, Va., Jan. 10.

Residents from Richmond took an interest with the Osprey's landings as they gathered, waved and took pictures of the aircraft.

"It's refreshing to see that people want to come out and see the plane. It's new and interesting," said Cpl. John A. Ward, an Osprey crew chief.

The flights gave pilots the opportunity to become familiarized with landing zones and to practice landing the aircraft in urban environments they might use during the 22nd MEU's Realistic Urban Training.

The 22nd MEU is currently conducting their Realistic Urban Training in and around Fort Pickett, Va., a Virginia Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center.

The purpose of RUT is to give Marines of the 22nd MEU an opportunity to operate in unfamiliar urban environments.

"I think the Marine Corps plays a crucial role being able to fight in an urban environment, and that means the squadron needs to be able to land and insert Marines in this environment," said Capt. Newel R. Bartlett, the Osprey tactics officer for the squadron, and native of Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Before the Ospreys took flight, teams visited each of the sites to ensure they would serve as safe landing zones for the aircraft.

"Our safety department and our operations department went out and talked to people that lived in the area," said Bartlett. "They qualified the zones by ensuring that there weren't any obstacles that could damage the aircraft or anything around that we might damage due to our down wash."

Marine crew chiefs in the aircraft watch outside of the aircraft, to ensure they don't damage anything when they are landing, said Ward.

"As a pilot you can only see the first half of where the aircraft is," said Bartlett. "I have a good 80 feet of aircraft behind me with two huge wings sticking out on the edges, so I am completely dependent on my crew."

Ward said this training was good because they get the chance to land in different places besides the same open field landing zones back at the MEU's home base of Camp Lejeune, N.C.

"Each zone had its own obstacles. Some had tall light poles, power-lines, and trees that you had to maneuver around," said Bartlett. "It was good to train in all the different types of exposures in the urban terrain."

The 22nd MEU will be the first such unit to deploy with the MV-22B Osprey.  The unit is scheduled to deploy this spring.  For more information, visit the unit's website at www.22meu.usmc.mil.

 

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  FORT PICKETT, Va.-An MV-22B Osprey from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron263 (Reinforced), 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, sets down on the campus of Saint Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Va., Jan. 10, 2009. VMM-263 (Rein) flew from Fort Pickett, Va., a Virginia Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center near Blackstone. The 22nd MEU is in Virginia to conduct Realistic Urban Training, a portion of their pre-deployment training program. The 22nd MEU is scheduled to deploy this spring., Cpl. Theodore W. Ritchie, 1/10/2009 11:08 AM

   

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  FORT PICKETT, Va.-An MV-22B Osprey from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 (Reinforced), 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, descends
  over the trees to land at Saint Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Va., Jan. 10, 2009. VMM-263 (Rein) flew from Fort
  Pickett, Va., a Virginia Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center near Blackstone. The 22nd MEU is in Virginia
  to conduct Realistic Urban Training, a portion of their pre-deployment training program. The 22nd MEU is scheduled
  to deploy this spring.
  (Official Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Theodore W. Ritchie), Cpl. Theodore W. Ritchie, 1/10/2009 11:08 AM

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  FORT PICKETT, Va.-An MV-22B Osprey from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 (Reinforced), 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, hovers over
  the campus of Saint Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Va., Jan. 10, 2009. VMM-263 (Rein) flew from Fort Pickett, Va.,
  a Virginia Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center near Blackstone. The 22nd MEU is in Virginia to conduct
  Realistic Urban Training, a portion of their pre-deployment training program. The 22nd MEU is scheduled to deploy
  this spring.
  (Official Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Theodore W. Ritchie), Cpl. Theodore W. Ritchie, 1/10/2009 11:06 AM

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  FORT PICKETT, Va.-A Marine looks over the campus of Saint Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Va., from an MV-22B Osprey from Marine
  Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 (Reinforced), 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit after take-off Jan 10, 2009. VMM-263 was
  conducting a familiarization flight in the area. They flew from Fort Pickett, Va., a Virginia Army National Guard
  Maneuver Training Center near Blackstone. The 22nd MEU is in Virginia to conduct Realistic Urban Training, a portion
  of their pre-deployment training program. The 22nd MEU is scheduled to deploy this spring.
  (Official Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Theodore W. Ritchie)
  , Cpl. Theodore W. Ritchie, 1/10/2009 11:01 AM

 

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I'm delighted that you've found it to be worthwhile  :-)

[unkus]

You bet it is. Thanks much. I’ll show it to my World War ll Marine uncle. He loves this type thing. He’s always saying how he wishes they had our technology back then, etc. He says if he was 65 years younger he’d join up again.

[JSteff]

Great Post!

[Tainan]

Looks like cake. Minimal prop blast, nice easy air speed. Just walk down the ram and Knees in da Breeze!

And that LZ looks pretty good also...;)

[Tainan]

“ram” = “ramp”