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V-22 Osprey Suffers Hard Landing Again?

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2017 in General Discussion
Another operational error or a Flying complicated expensive piece of Junk?

Yet another in operations failure that should have never left the drawing board in my opinion. A Pentagon toy that is an failure with two many in flight crashes.

I wonder how That navy ship is doing with a 500,000 shell that can't afford to buy is doing?

serf

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/09/29/us-military-aircraft-crash-in-syria-injures-two.html

Officials said while it?s unclear what happened to cause the crash, a mechanical issue is suspected. The crash is under investigation.

?Something happened in the air causing the aircraft to go down,? the official said.

A separate official said: ?It?s a miracle so few were injured."

Two Marine aviators and an infantryman died when their MV-22 Osprey crashed off the coast of Australia on Aug. 5.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,724 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    why fly these pieces of crap.....
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    The rotors' combined downwash creates a vortex effect, which negates lift.
    It then flies like debris.
    These unarmed throwbacks thunder overhead daily in 'Burque, they keep a few around the KAFB to keep the pigeons nervous.
    I'd fly in a homemade gyrocopter before I'd get in one of those.
    Probably responsible for more dead Marines than the Chinook.[V]
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