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Q: How many hours do you have flying in the V-22 and how many hours have you spent doing FMEA on the technology?

A: ZERO

I thought so.

Any qualms about letting your, or anyone elses, son fly into combat on 40 year old CH-46Es, AKA Boeing Body Bags?

Q: How many hours do you have flying in the V-22 and how many hours have you spent doing FMEA on the technology? A: ZERO
I thought so.

Any qualms about letting your, or anyone elses, son fly into combat on 40 year old CH-46Es, AKA Boeing Body Bags?

.....Glad to hear that the aircraft and crew were able to land is .....problems will be fixed and almost certainly a similar aircraft will be adapted for civilian applications

The comment at the end about civilian adaptability covers my concern for the military use of the Osprey. Lawyers will have to be tranquilized after the first couple of these go down in "civilian" use and is why they only use them in the Military... cause the Marines who die can't sue for crappy engineering and piss poor planning.

I don't have a problem with the ramp up of weapon and transport systems, I have a problem when the Pentagon and those feeding at the trough start out with something complex (helicopter) and then exponentially make it more complex (rotation of wing/props), then years after the initial design in order to change the characteristics of the Osprey to pass congressional and Armed Forces critics (heavier payload/faster transport) they've made a very complicated vehicle that isn't going to do what we need it to do... fly 'reliably' into a hot combat zone.... I thought initially it was for transport into an area, but I'm told that this will be used to transport into hot LZ's and just scoot away.

I'm not a pilot, not brave enough, even though the potential of retreating at 600-700 mph is kinda enticing. I'd rather stick to a 5 to 6 foot high observation platform with a top speed around 12-15 mph (a little faster if shot at), low pay load (max out at about 120lb carrying) but real low maintanence water and beef jerky in a pinch.

. I think this is a program that just needs to wait until the engineering catches up with the idea.... of course that's only my opinion and I could be wrong.

The $hithook if a great bird that should be caged, dried and photographed to provide reference to it's extinction for the EPA/ESA.