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Posted on 04/02/2021 2:02:57 PM PDT by chrisser
What's an Osprey doing in the middle of nowhere WV?
I have the ADS-B site up with a military filter and persistence on. Maybe I’ll catch it when it leaves and can see where it goes.
Spring break trip.
I haven’t been to the local airfield. It’s a single strip in the hills. We’re over an hour from the nearest interstate.
If the CIA was here, they sure would stick out unless they wore overalls and drove a muddy old 4x4.
There’s a Marine Corps Reserve Training center in Charleston WV, about 50 miles away.
Someone was getting cockpit hours on a day off.
Yes- it’s on one of many flight vectors from Patuxent, and from Quantico USMC. Refuel stop or maybe emergent mechanical.
Now if you see 12 of them with offloads of Marine squads-— may be an op.
As for the birds— they are raptors and range far and wide in search of fish. Have seen bald eagles attack ospreys and steal their just caught fish catch. They... compete in the same niche.
sof uses them. Delta tryouts is in WV, and 2/19 is there.
Is it typical to land at a little local airport? We’re between Charleston and Parkersburg. Charleston especially would have much better facilities. I guess if you’re having trouble, any airport is better than trying to put it down in the woods or on a rural road.
I don’t know much about the details of aircraft refueling - does an Osprey take the same fuel as local single engine private planes?
They knew to blend in with locals, at least they did a few decades ago.
I clicked on this post looking for a bird picture.
The Osprey is powered by Rolls Royce T406 turboshaft engines, so Jet fuel.
I measured the airstrip with Google Earth. It’s just under 4600 feet from end to end.
Is that long enough for small jets to land?
Just curious if they’d have jet fuel there as a regular service.
Richard citizen journalist captured it on video. Here is a Telegram link to it:
Are they weaponizing them like dolphins and seals?
Apparently the osprey has been listening to AOC and took the opportunity to be the first one escape global warming and set up new headquarters in WY.
Strange, an Osprey flew over Reno the other day. Do not know where it came from.
V-23 doesn’t need a runway. It’s a VTOL aircraft
*V-22* dangit!
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