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Tango01 | 22 May 2015 10:21 p.m. PST |
"…the NYPD K-9 unit policeman told me when I arrived at the Lower Manhattan Heliport at 4:30 AM. "Those things haven't been too reliable. A lot of crashes lately. Good luck." Two hours later, we were lifting off the ground. I had gathered on the wind-swept, desolate pier with Tavarish, a handful of other journalists, reigning Miss USA Nia Sanchez, and Dean Cain (yes, that Dean Cain) to participate in this year's New York City Fleet Week festivities, and they were already off to a nerve-wracking start. I had been telling myself for a week that I'd be fine. That the multitude of crashes incurred during the V-22 Osprey's development, and another one just last week that killed one Marine and injured 21 others, didn't mean that our Osprey would be going down too. But they did hand us a helmet, a life vest, and an oxygen tank, just in case…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
Random Die Roll | 23 May 2015 6:35 a.m. PST |
This is a quote from the Osprey design team. "The Osprey is really not an aircraft. It is an engineered device that takes all of the aircraft design rules, learned over decades, and beats them into submission." |
Lion in the Stars | 24 May 2015 7:45 p.m. PST |
Related helicopter humor: "Helicopters don't fly, they just beat the air into submission;" and "Helicopters are 10,000 parts flying together in close formation around an oil leak, held together by safety wire." and as far as the comments about this photo go:
That's what an Airliner looks like when you take all the excess weight of the interior panels out. Since Marines tend to have a lot more gear with them than even a civilian photographer would, the "make it look pretty" panels have to go. |
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