[Rabin]

Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters that the incident will not immediately change the way the way Marines and others use the Osprey.

r.

[Steely Tom]

Vortex ring state?

[MV=PY]

"Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters that the incident will not immediately change the way the way Marines and others use the Osprey. "

Well, I plan to avoid them for a spell.

RIP.

[logi_cal869]

I had a conversation about this bird just the other day. He defended its technology. I agreed, but attacked the moronic thinking that it was deployable and safely so for troops.

Redundancy is a key facet of military flight systems. Same goes for powerplants. This is the defect in the F35 (among others).

Remarkable in conception, it should never have been granted anything but an ‘X’ model.

With next-gen materials, the tech is right around the corner. The first truly successful VTOL of this type will be jet-powered and have twin jet engines per ‘wing’...it’s about the physics.

Isaac Newton said it best...

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[Chode]

hard landing... good thing it didn't crash then

Prayers up, RIP

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[logi_cal869]

One more thought:

“Hard landing”...lol.

If a ‘crash’ is now described as ‘hard landing’, then the riches bestowed by our economic recovery are best described as a ‘golden shower’...

[polstar123]

Sorry to have lost a Marine in this accident.

The Osprey has had so many thousands of hours of successful mission time, especially in Afghanistan, I don’t think we should be too critical of it. But maybe Obama should start flying his expensive MV-22 version of the Osprey instead of reserving it for Bo the dog.

[hosepipe]

Osprey should be named Bumble-Bee.....
It shouldn’t fly but it does and is ugly...

[Antoninus II]

I want to know what a “test crash” is!

[Does so]

Donald Rumsfeld wanted the Ospreys gone from service.

[BerryDingle]

My Ford Escort threw a fan belt. I’m going to bitch that Ford needs to cancel the Escort.