Anonymous ID: 623ea4 Nov. 30, 2023, 12:36 p.m. No.20004629   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Ospreys

 

As of November 2023, 16 V-22 Ospreys have been damaged beyond repair in accidents that have killed a total of 55 people. Four crashes killed a total of 30 people during testing from 1991 to 2000.Since the V-22 became operational in 2007, 12 crashes, including two in combat zones, and several other accidents and incidents have killed a total of 26 people.

 

"When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid โ€œtiltrotorโ€ called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival."

 

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Dream_Machine/_9Asc0bgm_cC?hl=en