Posted on Sep 29, 2017
V-22 Osprey Suffers ‘Hard Landing’ in Syria, Two Service Members Injured - USNI News
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V-22 Osprey Suffers ‘Hard Landing’ in Syria, Two Service Members Injured - USNI News
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These are some very dangerous growing pains for the Osprey this is the first aircraft of it type.
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SSgt (Join to see)
PFC (Join to see) - I'd be interested to see what the numbers on in these hard landings/crashes where the rotors were being "switched". I'm not aerophysics guy, but it would seem that would cause an increase in risk, right?
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PFC (Join to see)
SSgt (Join to see) - most of the accident I have read about including the one hear at bellows air force base has always occurred just after the Osprey switched from vehicle to horizontal flight and just entered into a hover for bellows I believe it kicked up some FOD that caused an the aircraft to have equipment malfunction and causing the Osprey to lose lift. I'm not physics guy either but that was what I understood was the cause.
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LTC Stephen C.
SSgt (Join to see), I agree that the Osprey has done some remarkable things, but these "very dangerous growing pains" that PFC (Join to see) mentions continue. An Osprey is not considered safe enough to serve as Marine One. It's not going away, but I'll certainly be glad when all the kinks are worked out, and the Osprey is all "grown up"!
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PFC (Join to see)
I have no doubt that the Navy and Airforce will because they will need this aircraft it's got to be made to work at this point.
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