Posted on 04/02/2021 2:02:57 PM PDT by chrisser
What's an Osprey doing in the middle of nowhere WV?
If you're curious, it's Boggs Field outside Spencer WV.
Seems really odd. We have a hospital with a helipad for medical flights, and we see the occasional private plane flyover, but an Osprey...?
Is this a normal type of training op for maybe the WV ANG? On Good Friday?
Wife saw it earlier and got a closer look and said it was definitely grey, although I don't know if color gives any indication.
I thought the Osprey was exclusively a Marine Corps aircraft.
They gotta move those cages full of migrant children somewhere, and somehow. Using a train would be bad optics.
I should note we did see another Osprey flyover about six months ago flying with (I kid you not) a black helicopter.
The bird or the V-22 (MV-22 for USMC)?
Asking cause, well, I just don’t.
https://www.boeing.com/defense/v-22-osprey/
https://www.military.com/equipment/mv-22-osprey
At first I thought you were asking about birds. The aircraft was probably just passing through. We had one fly over our town; at first it looked like some old War War II airplane, but then it got closer and it was an Osprey. Probably going to the airport for fuel. Fighter jets from the Air National Guard do the same occasionally.
Yes, the aircraft. I actually wouldn’t recognize the bird if I saw it...
Apparently it’s used by both the USMC and the USAF with plans for the USN according to Wikipedia.
It was the Qanon team rescuing little kids from underground torture tunnels.
Heading from/to depot work or testing at Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio or Patuxent River NAS in Maryland?
Saw a couple yesterday heading to Marine Corps Air Station... in Yuma, AZ.
I can find videos of them flying into a small airport in WV from 2019, it could be some kind of biannual exercise.
My wife saw one earlier in the afternoon. Could be the same one, or it could be two on similar paths.
I guess a fuel stop is a possibility.
I looked it up on adsb but either it’s not squawking or it’s down and the transponder’s off.
How long do these take to fuel up? I may monitor ADSB and see if it shows up on the way out.
Also in service for Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC).
Watch out for those wily birds. They’ll steel your trout.
The USAF has a CV-22 variant in inventory. It can be used for SAR or special ops.
I didn’t want to ASSUME the aircraft, but was leaning heavily that direction of course.
Had one try to attack a helicopter once.
It’s unlikely I’d post on FR because I saw a bird, but not completely impossible I guess.
Is there a no name CIA airport in that area?
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