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Marines Push Quietly, But Hard, For Navy to Replace C-2s With V-22s
AOL Defense ^ | 3/7/2012 | Richard Whittle

Posted on 04/07/2012 1:48:58 AM PDT by U-238

Landing a V-22 Osprey helicopter-style on the sprawling flight deck of the nuclear aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush was a snap, says Marine Corps test pilot Capt. Dan McKinney.

With Lt. Col. David Weinstein, McKinney did it a dozen times on March 20 – six landings in daylight, six at night. After their first two touchdowns, sailors perched in the carrier's superstructure to watch the helicopter-airplane hybrid Osprey's first-ever carrier qualification landings, conducted off the coast of North Carolina, started giving the pilots "a lot of thumbs-up."

Marine leaders hope the Osprey's "carrier quals," scheduled to continue in May and June, will help the Osprey get a thumbs-up as well from the admirals who run the Navy when they pick a replacement aircraft for their aging C-2A Greyhounds, the twin-engine turboprops that haul cargo, mail and passengers between carriers and the shore -- a mission called COD for "carrier on-board delivery." The first prototypes flew in 1964.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aerospace; aircraftcarrier; c2; cvn77; mv22; navair; usmc; usnavy; v22
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To: Rannug
Just don’t try bringing that plane into a hot LZ.

Don't tell that to the Osprey aircrews who already have.

21 posted on 04/07/2012 8:05:28 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: TexasRedeye

Another issue for the V-22 is the heat from the exhaust when the propellers are rotated upwards. Apparently, this has caused difficulties when landing or taking off, causing near melting conditions on the deck superstructure.

You don’t hear about this problem these days. Maybe they have found a way to deal with it.


22 posted on 04/07/2012 8:23:55 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: A.A. Cunningham

When they put jets on this thing, it’s gonna be a game changer.


23 posted on 04/07/2012 8:33:37 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: A.A. Cunningham
Just landing on the deck of a CV/CVN doesn’t constitute executing Sea Trials.

OK. What we did in the '90s were called "Proof of concept". We just trying to sell the darn thing!

24 posted on 04/07/2012 9:26:34 AM PDT by TexasRedeye
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To: Fractal Trader
Apparently, this has caused difficulties when landing or taking off, causing near melting conditions on the deck superstructure.

Sounds like you're channeling Carlton Meyer and his cabal of buffoons at that hack blog he runs.

The deck heating issue was solved long ago

25 posted on 04/07/2012 9:29:36 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: U-238

V-22 Unit Cost ~ $70 Million
C-2A Unit cost ~ $39 million


26 posted on 04/07/2012 12:59:12 PM PDT by Josh Painter ("We will not save our country by becoming like the left." - Sarah Palin)
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To: SampleMan

I always thought a ship was a ship and a boat was a sub.

Oh well.


27 posted on 04/09/2012 3:08:15 PM PDT by hattend (Jesus wants me to make churches pay for abortions. - Barack Obama)
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To: hattend

“The Boat” is a term of endearment for a CV by Naval Aviators.


28 posted on 04/09/2012 3:42:42 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: hattend

“The Boat” is a term of endearment for a CV by Naval Aviators.


29 posted on 04/09/2012 3:42:59 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
I would have thought that the .51’s and rpg’s would have made mince meat out of it. Really glad it can survive that environment.
30 posted on 04/10/2012 5:05:24 AM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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