V-22 Osprey: $20 billion; 25 year; 30 lives....

On Sep 29, 9:26?pm, Dan wrote:
Kyle Boatright wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message
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http://www.time.com/time/politics/ar...665835,00.html

V-22 Osprey: A Flying Shame
By Mark Thompson

In hindsight, it would have been wise to give up the idea of military
aviation after Thomas Selfridge was killed.

;-)

Excellent idea. No air forces, no aerial war, no civil transport and
mankind will always remember Wright Fliers as the epitome of man's folly
in the air. Now, if the Montgolfiers hadn't invented lighter than air
flight, think of all the lives that could have been saved there also.

Even more lives would have been saved if railroads hadn't been
invented. Man was never intended to fly nor travel faster than a horse.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Funny that you should mention the horse. Several inventors tried to
make mechanical horses work, but only the Italians succeeded with the
very rare Iron Dobbin:

http://italy.greyfalcon.us/THE%20DOBBIN.htm

Rob