V-22 Osprey: A Flying Shame

[A Ninja]

the V-22 has been 25 years in development, more than twice as long as the Apollo program that put men on the moon. V-22 crashes have claimed the lives of 30 men — 10 times the lunar program's toll — all before the plane has seen combat. The Pentagon has put $20 billion into the Osprey and expects to spend an additional $35 billion before the program is finished. In exchange, the Marines, Navy and Air Force will get 458 aircraft, averaging $119 million per copy.

Full Story:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/artic ... 35,00.html

[Sizzler]

From what I have heard it has become actually pretty dependable and all things that have caused the vortex-whatsit-suck-air-you-are-pushing-out shit has been fixed in recent years.

plus, it looks so fucking cool.

[A Ninja]

I've been in love with it since it was in Half Life.

But from what I read, when they are shipped out, half the time they aren't fully completed.

And I'd be more for it, but the fact that it has almost no weapons and no autorotation is just too much.

[Hunt3r]

I've been in love with it since it was in Half Life.

But from what I read, when they are shipped out, half the time they aren't fully completed.

And I'd be more for it, but the fact that it has almost no weapons and no autorotation is just too much.

I tried it using a model in X-Plane, where it calculates the behavior of the aircraft every 20 times a second, and yes, it is damn impossible to fly. And you can't even do a conventional takeoff without the prop striking the ground, wow.

[Sizzler]

It's a transport deal. It goes really fast and it can land vertically.

[A Ninja]

But imagine, even Dick Cheney wants it to be dead.

[Hunt3r]

It's a transport deal. It goes really fast and it can land vertically.

Well, what's with no miniguns? Hell blackhawks do better. At least they don't flip over from bouncing up and down from their own resonance waves.

[Sizzler]

shut up hunt3r

[Cc_Hairy]

They need to put the Osprey on ice and drag that anti-gravity shit at Area S4 out of mothballs.

[Hunt3r]

They need to put the Osprey on ice and drag that anti-gravity shit at Area S4 out of mothballs.

We have a play called Area S4? Coolz.

[Pr0stSh0cKeR]

The reason why the military cut all losses and pulled out of Black Mesa.

But on the plus side, it's also the reason why Shephard got into the fray.

[Cc_Hairy]

And it was 15 miles south of here, at an even more clandestine (and controversial) base of operations known as Area S4 at Papoose Lake, that shadowy physicist Robert Lazar claimed to have helped study captured flying-saucer technology.

http://www.ufomind.com/area51/articles/ ... i_9409.txt

Carved into the base of the Papoose mountain is a laboratory including nine hangars, each one housing an alien disc. It was at this base where Lazar worked. In addition to the hands on experience with the Reticulan craft and propulsion system, Lazar and other scientists were briefed on programs relating to these aliens and their involvement with the human race. The briefings presented an overview of aliens "externally correcting" our evolution over the last 10,000 years and least 15 years of direct technology exchange between extra-terrestrial beings and the scientists at S4.

The S4 installation is built into the mountain with the hangar doors built on an angle matching the slope of the mountain. These doors are covered with a sand textured coating to blend in with the side of the mountain and the desert floor. This was designed to hide the base from soviet spy satellites like the one that heads this site. In the illustration above, the satellite image was mapped to USGS altitude data. The small black rectangle represents the bus with the blacked out windows that drove Lazar and the other scientists from Groom Lake (Area 51) to Area S4. The bus drove pass all nine hangars doors which are numbered one through nine respectively before turning to the left at the end of the ninth hangar and parking at an indentation in the mountain. This is where the entrance to S4

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZaDuZF ... 3dkSXaOplI


moar Area S4 info http://www.gravitywarpdrive.com/Governm ... entist.htm


lol pic

[PhogOlog]

and yes, it is damn impossible to fly.

srry for large image from wikipedia
marines jumping out of the impossible to fly osprey And they look cool

[Sizzler]

Yeah man I flew that plane in a computer game and FUCK IT WAS SO HARD

[Lobsters]

Yeah man I flew that plane in a computer game and FUCK IT WAS SO HARD

Your post might have been funny if it had actually made a valid criticism of hunter's post.