Posted on 06/17/2006 6:41:18 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
No offense taken.
No, they wanted it in the worst possible way--which is how the got it.
Yep!! The craft is the BOEING V=22 Osprey !!!!
The interesting this is that they found the V-22 induce vortex ring state is very ease to get out of(unlike a helicopter)just tilt the rotors forwarded and power out...
Bottom line you don't fly a plane like a helicopter and you don't fly a helicopter like a plane...And VSTOL aircraft like the Harrier and the Ospreys you don't fly like either a helicopter or plane
...The Harrier was considerer a widow maker till the this hard lesson was learned
My question:
". . . but when will it carry a squad of Marines from Kandahar into [the] mountains that border Pakistan?"
Your answer:
"How long does it take to break down and load a CH-53E onto a C-5 or C-17, fly it to theater, reassemble it and conduct a PMCF before it can be used tactically?"
I'll take that as an, "I don't know."
I have to admit, when I first saw drawings for this Aircraft in the Navy Times back in '92 I thought they had made an obvious mistake...it can't land and take off with it's engines horizontal.
I am surprised and disappointed at how many FReepers keep tossing out old, long refuted arguments against the V-22.
Tomorrow I will be with a number of Marines who would be in the know. I will get back to you.
I guess you either don't know the answer or the number is embarrassingly low.
What a joke!
A prop driven plane has been in development for 25 years and it' Cheney's fault?!?!?!?
LOL!!!!
Even if the tanks are carried inboard it seems likely that they can be rolled out of the stern door.
Basic aeronautics:
Any aircraft has a Max Gross Takeoff weight.
Fuel contributes to that calculation and thus REDUCES THE ALLOWABLE CARGO WEIGHT!
Obviously. But the idea is to prove endurance and, in this case, reduce air tanking. It's a long-range ferry demonstration.
Unlike you, pogue, I know plenty.
This is great if we need to get troops from New River to Farnbourgh, but when will it carry a squad of Marines from Kandahar into mountains that border Pakistan?
Since the aircraft hasn't deployed to theater yet we don't have the answer to your simpleton question.
Now answer the one that was posed to you.
You rode that short yellow bus to school, didn't you.
http://www.boeing.com/rotorcraft/military/v22/tilttimes/sept05.pdf
Even a simpleton knows that in order for the Osprey to carry a squad of Marines into harm's way, it must first be deployed to the AO. In your typical smarmy way, you've answered the relevant question. You, not "we," don't know. Since you know "plenty," it must not be known whether or not the Osprey will be supporting the troops in this war or the next one.
As far as your question goes, please, dazzle me. I don't know.
Sorry, I looked back to last Wednesday and I swear I wrote you. Well, someone else must have got it. You were correct, they are being used. My son hasen't been on one yet, but over the next 12 months he expects they will.
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