All things MV-22 Osprey

[SynixMan]

AFSOC (I believe) MV-22 down in Afghanistan. Black week for American air power...

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/04/09/nato-osprey-chopper-crashes/?test=latestnews

 

[Birdog8585]

Shit. Sentiments to the families.

Standby for Congressman Towns to come out guns a blazin

More info from aviation leak.

 

[ChuckMK23]

New Book Being Published: The Dream Machine, The Untold History Of The Notorious V-22 Osprey

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270843454&sr=8-1

 

[Rocketman]

Air Force CV-22 Osprey Down in Afghanistan

Looks like it was based at based at Hurlburt Field, with the 8th Special Operations Squadron.

http://www.chipleypaper.com/news/hurlburt-5858-afghanistan-kandahar.html

 

[Clux4]

I hope this does not ground the fleet.

 

[phrogdriver]

AFSOC (I believe) MV-22 down in Afghanistan. Black week for American air power...

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/04/09/nato-osprey-chopper-crashes/?test=latestnews

USAF CV-22. Yes, the rumors are already flying, and as always, lets wait for real news to come out about it. Wait for real news outlets, especially ones that know about aerospace, to release news, not the tinfoil hat, Carlton Meyer crowd.

Afghanistan's a dangerous place for any rotorcraft, and something was bound to happen eventually. My composite HMM squadron had two Class As and three Bs and below over a 2 1/2 month period there back in 01-02.

The SOCOM types, like AFSOC, wreck a lot of gear that doesn't usually make the news. This wasn't exactly something that was going to be overlooked by the media, though.

 

[phrogdriver]

New Book Being Published: The Dream Machine, The Untold History Of The Notorious V-22 Osprey

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270843454&sr=8-1

Yes, I'm getting the book. I'm still hoping they release in on Kindle, though.

 

[phrogdriver]

I hope this does not ground the fleet.

Why would that happen?

Fleets are only grounded for defective parts found in the supply system and such. There's no reason to suspect that's the case here.

Aircraft fly, so eventually some crash. If you want a mishap rate of 0, just keep them all in the hangar.

 

[Birdog8585]

A little something to lighten the mood - Air & Space's May issue has a great article by an embed with VMM-261 in Afghanistan.

Made the cover!


http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/Osprey-at-War.html?c=y&page=1


BTW had the Whittle book on order for a while now. Should be an interesting read.

 

[Pepe]

Deleted because it was a repost.

 

[Birdog8585]

Scroll up 15 posts Pepe.

 

[Birdog8585]

How is it that they know the cause in a little over a week since the mishap?

 

[mmx1]

How is it that they know the cause in a little over a week since the mishap?


I vote politics.

I vote flight data recorder/IMDS, whatever they call it in the Osprey.

 

[Lawman]

I vote flight data recorder/IMDS, whatever they call it in the Osprey.

Agreed. If your watching the last two minutes of the tape and you hear something like "Im inadvertant!" chances are you can make a safe assumption that mechanical failure had nothing to do with it.

 

[phrogdriver]

I vote that 99% of the time, the cause of a mishap is fairly obvious, especially when there are surviving witnesses. Then 3 months are spent tying everything into a neat bow.

As far as the leak of the information, it could be political, or it could be just an undisciplined individual spouting off at the mouth.