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A V-22 from my son's unit just crashed in Syria. No fatalities, aircraft destroyed. https://www.marinecorpstimes.c...ey-crashes-in-syria/ | ||
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Brown-outs are a real problem with that platform, aircrew has to be on their toes during landings. For the all the capability that this aircraft has, it's a real sonofabitch for the passengers in the back: everything has been buttoned down and secured, goggles tighten-up and loose straps tucked/stowed. | |||
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Really cool machines. They look like they shouldn't be able to fly. They couldn't, at first. They should have named it "Albatross" instead of "Osprey"  but I still like watching them.Glad everyone is ok. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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I've been in one on two occasions. The sheer amount of wall to wall stuff is absolutely mind blowing. Every single inch of the inside is covered in wires and important looking things. | |||
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Glad to hear no one died! The aircraft is going to get destroyed; I think all of our (AFSOC) CV-22s that have crashed have been total airframe losses; it's a mostly composite frame and easily sustains damage. I'm really glad your son is safe and no one was killed. | |||
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They cost $72+ million a copy, a terrible safety record and were built largely because of political considerations. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Glad to hear no one was hurt. | |||
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The aircraft was destroyed. It burned. | |||
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First they said "hard landing" and then later they refer to it as a crash. Those can be totally different in action and outcome... Hedley Lamarr: Wait, wait, wait. I'm unarmed. Bart: Alright, we'll settle this like men, with our fists. Hedley Lamarr: Sorry, I just remembered . . . I am armed. | |||
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