BoomOpCT:
I think it's a little off to try to compare the osprey in airplane mode to other airplanes and the osprey in helo mode to other helos. It doesn't make sense. It's not boasted to be faster than regular airplanes, nor better at lifting than normal helocopters. The V-22 can't "fall short" of either of those regulations as it doesn't fit into either. Those limits are designed specifically for aircrafts of those exact builds and functions...not a tilt-roter.
Sorry, son, when the V-22 is in airplane mode it *IS* an airplane. A military airplane at that. Which we would assume to be...you know...tough. Tougher at least than most
civilian aircraft.
But in either airplane or helicopter mode, the V-22 has lower manuevering load limits than any other civilian aircraft, including lowly Bell 47. But you seem to give the V-22 a pass because of its unique capabilities, eh?
Keep drinking the Kool-Aid, kid. (Oh, and it's "rotor," by the way.)
And before I go... BoomOpCT mentioned this to Dan Reno:
If you were a military pilot, then you would know that those warnings and bullets that keep getting posted aren't as dramatic is everyone is making them out the be. At all. You would also know that the flight manual alone does not govern how the aircraft can be flown.
Oh really?? BoomOp, you're just a flight engineer or something, right? If you were a
pilot you'd know that the AFM absolutely defines and governs how the aircraft can be flown. Those bullet points and warnins are there for a reason. Ignore the AFM and all those warnings in it at your peril...and at the peril of all the innocent SOB's that are riding in the back, trusting you with their lives.
Just sayin'.