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(robert arndt) wrote:

(Henry J. Cobb) wrote in message
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Will the increased cruising speed of the Osprey make it a better bet
for going downtown in the third world than the current fleet of
helicopters?

Absolutely not. The V-22 is a transitional flight machine that will
have to transition to achieve level flight and land, making it highly
vunerable.

So, in your world, an aircraft coming in fast then landing slow is
supposed to be *more* vulnerable than one coming in slow and landing
slow? Apparently, you've found a gap in the basis of modern warfare...
"speed is good."

The helicopter, by comparison might be slower in level
flight but it takes a lot less skill and time to land.

Not really. The V-22 is supposed to be very nice to fly, and only has a
couple of tricky flight regimes, like the vortex ring state problem (as
long as you keep it below 800 feet per minute descent rates at slow
forward aispeeds, you're not going to run into that). VRS can affect
some normal copters at the same high sink rates, too...

The helicopter also has the advantage of not falling out of the sky
like a brick everytime there is a inflight mechanical failure.

Wow, you really are trying here. But the kinds of things that could
make the Osprey fall out of the sky are the same things that can make
big copters fall out of the sky. Lose a rotor, lose a transmission, et
cetera.

BTW, there is nothing new about the V-22. The Germans had two
transitional flight aircraft in the design stage at the end of WW2-
from Focke Achgelis and WeserFlug.

A cartoon on a piece of drafting paper is not what most people call
"design stage."

It's kind of sad, really. Your whole point seem to be "the Osprey
sucks, but the Germans thought of this sucky aircraft first and never
built one."

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