Saw a couple of Ospreys flying overhead the other day and went on bunnytrail where I learned they were designed in response to helicopter failures during operation eagle claw (Iranian hostage rescue failed mission). Never realized it was this big a mess.
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This is the Rube Goldberg machine of covert ops, unnecessarily complicated by fuel limits, 2 nights, 2 staging locations within Iran, landing a bunch of C-130s at first site to refuel helicopters from Nimitz en route to second site. Whole thing fell apart.
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And that’s how the world now has this ugly beast of a tilt rotor: the Osprey
It’s kinda ugly-beautiful though, like the A-10, the platypus or the A-7
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LA is turning me into a bit of a helicopter fan
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Of course, the most sensible way to counter the instability of helicopters is to build something even more unstable :-D
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