I’m an old Army guy who knows nothing about the Marines but I thought that there were major problems with that particular aircraft...crashes,etc.
Very cool!! Thanks for sharing.
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What is the purpose of those strange machines?
The purpose is to go to places no flying machine has any business going.
That is warning enough for those who value their lives.
You will never ever get me in one.
Do the rotors rotate when the Osprey is flying horizontally? If they are then that picture was taken with a heckova fast shutter.
Marines got his six.
Nice!
That photo looks like an action hero movie.
“....one of the Presidential VH-3D helicoptors....”
Wow, they look so 3D!”
Remember when obama had F16’s fly over NY with AF1 with no notice and upsetting many people in the city. I suspected the plane was carrying obamas friends who got him in office.
Bro in law was Master Gunny Sgt in Marine One shop (I got to visit and sit in Nancy Reagan’s seat). His definition of a helicopter: 10,000 parts all trying to get away from each other.
Got to witness the Presidential helicopter flight first hand from my front porch. Unfortunately, it was President Obama visiting the Oso mudslide site in 2014. Saw the two helicopters, and an escorting Osprey, leave Arlington (WA) Airport on their way back to Air Force One.
This is how obama traveled in SoCal too. One day when he was fairly new as President, and his fans were all excited as he was going to be traveling by motorcade from Long Beach CA airport to someplace south like Orange County or San Diego, they lined up on the freeway overpasses by downtown inner city Long Beach to see him go by underneath, with their signs of love etc. I was driving by on the 405 around the time he was taking off, not by motorcade but had changed to helicopter brigade like this photo of Trump. It was so exciting to see those copter things fly up and south. I looked back at the fans on the bridge but they were holding their signs and looking down to the freeway below in anticipation, ignoring the absolute cacophony of 5 military helicopters taking off near them and flying south. No clue.
Wondering out loud. Could it be that these Green Top units landed at the CIA in Langley and that turned into the conspiracy story that the Marines took over the CIA HQ?
I work in NJ about 7 miles west of Manhattan and I was walking outside last week and saw a single Osprey flying towards Manhattan. I wondered what it was doing, now I know!
Thanks, cool story.