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2022-08-17 -Land of the Free

Pilot error blamed [of course] for fatal US military Osprey crash that killed four marines in Norway during a NATO training flight

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Advice: Avoid all unplanned merging with the land/sky interface

Posted by magpie 2022-08-17 00:55|| 2022-08-17 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 The Ospreys are inherently dangerous.

The main reasons is due to the gyroscopic effects of the propellers and turbines with all those rotating parts.

As an experiment, take a bicycle wheel or a gyroscope (toy ones works too) and note the angle of the axle, vertical or horizontal. Spin it up and try to go from one angle to the other, i.e: from vertical to horizontal and vs versa. note the effect of doing so.

The Ospreys has two of them.

Pilot error, my ass! It's the design!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-08-17 15:14|| 2022-08-17 15:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Air Force Special Operations Command grounds CV-22 Osprey aircraft over safety concerns: report

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-08-17 16:21|| 2022-08-17 16:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Those damn things all belong in the Arizona desert.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-17 16:44|| 2022-08-17 16:44|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ or New Mexico.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-17 17:47|| 2022-08-17 17:47|| Front Page Top

#6 They mean: The pilot made an error when he got into the damned aircraft.

Posted by Matt 2022-08-17 17:54|| 2022-08-17 17:54|| Front Page Top

#7 They fly near daily over my abode on their way to/from @ Miramar - Yuma. Hope they stay at altitude

Posted by Frank G 2022-08-17 20:25|| 2022-08-17 20:25|| Front Page Top

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