Originally Posted by
helispotter
why Osprey is still operating..
Because it (1) works and (2) is fit for purpose and (3) in the last 10 years has a mishap rate of about 3 per 100,000 hours. You might want to pay attention to the customer satisfaction expressed by the USMC, the prime user.
I agree, though, with your disappointment in how journos go about this.
The insufferable David Ax went out of his way to write hatchet jobs on a variety of platforms.