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LOL, I know. Hey, I am not a helicopter guy, I was a jet mechanic. I was told once by a helicopter guy about “The Jesus Nut” up there in the rotor.

It is the one that can’t come lose, fall off, break, or otherwise fail, because if it does, you are going to meet Jesus!

Anyway, I am told the Osprey cannot effectively autorotate in a meaningful way...you are going to have to crash land it like a plane. It is more survivable in a crash than a typical helicopter (where the engines in those RIGHT ABOVE YOU come smashing through the overhead, with all the hot oil, hydraulic fluid, and fuel into your LAP!) and the Osprey rotors are intended to “jackstraw” when they impact the ground so you don’t get the same nasty effect a rotor on a helicopter would have, but...it is still a crash landing.

Either way I agree with you...I don’t want to be there. I learned the how and why of autorotation and sat through one when I took a helicopter flight lesson, and that seemed like a HELL of a way to land a craft with no power!