Video: Osprey Finally Sees Combat
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I love that bird! Now the Marines can execute invasions and combat operations with even greater shock effect!
December 18th, 2007 at 9:56 amIt still needs more self-defense armament. It needs a chaingun under the nose and at least a 50.cal port and starboard. A stinger in the tail is a good start. I assume they have flairs?
December 18th, 2007 at 9:58 amI’ve seen the Osprey alot…mostly flying over my house near Quantico. I got a front row seat whenever the Marines practice. Love watching (and hearing) my hard-earned tax dollars at work.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:11 am“eyewatering”, you got that right. Someday the opportunity will be right for me to tell my story about I and aviation, but, this is not the time.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:16 amI’ve seen the V22 in it’s early days of testing in Florida. I’ve also played around with the aircraft in X-Plane flight simulator, one of the worlds most accurate commercial simulators. It really didn’t take that long to get the hang of the aircraft. Think of it as a sideways Chinook helicopter that becomes an airplane in mid flight. Slowing it down and landing takes quite a bit of practice but once you get used to it it becomes very pleasurable to fly this thing even in a simulator.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:20 amDan, do you ever get into Q-town at all? Is Baloney-nose’s shop still on Main?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:24 amGo talk to the 30 families of the wasted marine lives and see how they feel.
Talk to the pilots who have ended their careers willingly, rather than fly that thing.
As citizens we should demand our money back and risk no more good men’s lives.
If you think I’m wrong do some research about how the bar was
consistently lowered so the thing could pass the test.
A kid with an 870 Remington could bring one down with one shot
December 18th, 2007 at 10:34 amto an engine, it takes both to stay up, any engine glitch and down it goes.
Fly the Edsel.
Ted B:
Wouldn’t know. I’m about 3000 meters from R-7. You familiar with that area?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:45 amGood to see it in the sand….finally. As a former H-46 guy in the Marines and someone who worked at Pax during testing of this plane I have to say I was very skeptical at first site. After almost a year of working on it I can say that my eyes were opened to the possibilities of this thing. First of all, the idea that it can be taken down by a small arms fire is true to an extent, but any helicopter can be taken down by small arms fire so its a moot point to even bring that up. Second, the aircraft can fly on a single engine. All Marine helicopters have 2 engines, they have 2 engines for a reason, its called redundancy. The aircraft save for its two engines has triple redundancy, meaning 3 of everything. Its not an attack helo either and the only place to put a .50 is off the rear ramp. Putting one out the AO window up front would be a waste, your field of motion would be enough to make a difference even in a fire for effect scenario which is a door-gun’s duty. Also, you can only fire in helo mode because trying to shoot in airplane mode will get you nothing but a face-full of rotor. Fixing this beast is another debacle all together and I feel for the mechs and techs that will be doing so. The way we looked at it during testing was that once it gets to the fleet the Marines would Marineize it. Like we did with the 46, make repairs simpler than the manuals show.
The biggest problem I saw was while doing ship-board testing. Landing next to the island on an LHD is pretty hairy especially in high wind. Also the Rolls-Royce engines exhaust is too hot and burns the non-skid right off the deck.
Lol other than that its a decent aircraft that is meant for transport, leave the attack up to the Cobras thats their job.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:36 amChoppers have defensive systems, hell, if we can turn a C-130 into a gun platform, why not the Osprey? Cobras are great, but they can’t be everywhere. If I’m a grunt getting on one, I want some firepower backing me up…just in case brother Cobra is busy somewhere else.
December 18th, 2007 at 4:24 pmYes I too feel for the families of those who lost their lives in the development of the MV-22 but does that mean its a failure? If we quit R&D every time lives were lost the only thing in the sky would be birds. As a current MV-22 pilot, I truly believe this will save many lives as it is used more and more. Talk to the pilots who actually fly this aircraft not those who got out b/c they didn’t want to.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:06 pmWhatever the development issues were with the Osprey were, I’ve seen so many of them flying around my hometown, that I’m convinced that the issues have been fixed.
Development of new systems is always fraught with setbacks. How many missiles did we lose on lauch pads before we managed to put a man in space? How many crews have we lost in our space program? Yet the program goes on.
And how many of our bases were renamed because of the death of some test pilot? Yet, we continue development of aircraft systems?
What did Kennedy say? “we don’t take on this task because it is easy…but because it is hard. Americans don’t quit because of setbacks in development. We adapt and overcome. It’s the American way.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:00 pmPeople that are alive can’t speak for the dead and by virtue of the fact that one is a survivor, that means you’re alive.
Dan (The Infidel) and those of similar comment, bravo.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:30 pmDan, I was there as a civilian so I was not privy to all areas, but some of the things I think about when I hear Quantico are Bolonese’s uniform shop and cheap haircuts.
I was in Quarters 4026-A just down the hill from the base grammar school and walking distance to the PX and Burger King.
I did manage to have some fun with the weapons training battalion there. Thank you Maj. X
December 19th, 2007 at 1:01 am