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Old 9th Apr 2012, 20:26
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SansAnhedral
 
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End of story, FH? Hardly.

A Ferrari can easily overcome the kinetic friction of its extremely high performance tires, skid though a turn and into a wall. Its much easier to do this in a 500hp supercar than it is in a 200hp Hyundai. What can possibly be done to prevent this!??! We drive the vehicles appropriately, avoid entering a corner at high speeds (which is a relative term, high speed for the hyundai might be 80mph, the ferrari 120mph), and learn recovery from skidding by countersteering, braking, and modulating throttle. Do we only drive Hyundais to avoid crashes like these? No.

Fact is, the conditions that make it happen are not easily or dependably reproducable
FH, more uneducated drivel from an aerodynamic layman like yourself exposes your own crusade against the V22, and is causing you to lean heavily on hypocritical critiques of 21stC's contributions. You claim comparisons to the 53 are irrelevant, after filling an entire post of the same.

I suggest you read the above white paper, and the multitude of flight testing reports linked elsewhere in this thread which have fully defined the very reproducible envelope of V22 VRS. In over 120,000 flight hours, no VRS incidents have been experienced. Will wonder's never cease, surely thats merely chance! Sure, it may happen again...if the aircraft is flown outside its well defined parameters. Just like flying a teetering rotor in a -1G maneuver....you sound like Mark Thompson hammering on "this fatal flaw".
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