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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw …
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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-7pic.twitter.com/QMl7xQFsGI
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What makes it worse is they clearly learned nothing from Song Tay.
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Did you make it to the follow-up plan? Operation Credible Sport, with it's rocket-assisted C-130 that was supposed to land in and then take-off from a football stadium is an ever better plan! A pretty clear second step in designing the mission profile of the V-22.
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Iirc Beckwith estimated a high chance of failure, did it any way. The guts to try...
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