Chad Irby wrote:
Mike Marron wrote:

You keep conveniently snipping away all the planes such as the F-111,
Su-22, Su-24, B-1, Mig-27, Tornado. Why is that?

Because they all had their own problems, and the point was that
experimental and/or new aircraft *crash*. The F-111 was near-legendary
for development problems, for example. The B-1 had problems for
*years*.

One_BIG_difference between all those swing-wing aircraft
I mentioned above vis a vis your beloved tilt-rotor Osprey -- the
swing wing aircraft have been OPERATIONAL for *decades*
(you do understand how long a decade" is, no?) whereas
tilt-rotor designs such as your beloved Osprey have NOT been
operational and are still NOT operational to this day.


So what?

So what?

So WHAT???!!#$%!!

DOH!


The *point*, that you keep missing, was that at similar points in their
development, they had problems, some as bad (or worse) then the Osprey.

Once again, the point that YOU keep missing is that variable-geometry
aircraft have long ago managed to overcome their "development
problems" whereas tilt-rotor aircraft have NOT managed to overcome
their "development problems" in_spite_of the fact that tilt-rotor
aircraft designs have been around since the EARLY 1950'S!!!!

Beam me up Scotty!!!