Please do continue your efforts of spreading the truth so that others may come to the conclusion, as I did, that the majority of “news” we hear (or read) is a form of liberal brainwashing.

You trigger memories. I spent a lot of time stationed at Moffett NAS, with my office in the great big blimp hangar and our aircraft on the ramp in front of it.

This was way pre-Osprey days, although the did have some sort of flying car that looked like a flying saucer. We also used to see the guppy a lot, although the last time I saw it was this year at the boneyard in Tucson (when they also let me sit in the cockpit of an SR-71!)

The Osprey is dead.

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Especially see my posts interspersed between #107 & #118 Also links to the Blogspirator.

We are going to have to get ready to deal with this stuff. Back in action again. Yee Haaa.

The rotor blades of a helicopter, any helo, create a ring of disturbed turbulent air underneath them—a vortex ring. If you are foolish enough to descend into that disturbed air with insufficient forward airspeed you will drop like a set of car keys.

If you have enough altitude you can fly out of the bottom of it. If you don’t you’re dead…

Craig

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All I know about Ospreys is that they looked kinda cool when they used to fly them at Moffet NAS during the airshow (I used to live right off the threshold) and they seem to prang them pretty often.

Oh yeah, The Osprey. I’d forgotten about that piece of crap. The Corps has been screwing around with it for twenty years.

A guy I went to school with, John Brow, crashed an Osprey. 19 Marines were killed. Including John. Vortex Ring State, what can I say?

But none of this has anything to do with Roger’s point about reactionary media, does it?

Do you wanna talk about abortion?

Craig

The CV-22 Osprey will replace the 46. It is just a pig and expensive one at that. The Marines would have been better off selecting a high speed tandem design that Boeing had experimented with in the 1980’s. It could lift 25000lbs 50 miles and cruise at 180 kts for half the price. But once the Marines locked in the Osprey they could not be moved.

I know the HH-60 and other Blackhawk variants now operate off Navy ships of all kinds. But at the time that NBC segment aired, I don’t believe the HH-60 variant was in production.

My understanding, wrong perhaps, was the Marines were being forced to chose between something proven and buying a “pig in a poke.” Without or without lipstick, the chioce seemed clear to me AT THE TIME. Plus they needed the Helos right then, not five years later.

But I could be wrong. My larger point was that you’ll never, repeat never, hear Dan Rather say that.

And BTW, what will replace the H-46 for the Marines? Those birds are old…

Semper Fi.

Craig