Forest Recon???????

Seriously, few have been more critical of the Osprey than I have. The CH-53E carries easily twice as many troops, is cheaper, and is also heavy lift. However, if - and that's a big if - the Osprey can self-deploy as it is being claimed, it will be a substantial decrease to the amount of logistic support needed to get it into the desired theatre of operations.

Whatever technical things can go wrong, will, and do sometimes go very wrong,

Has any thought or tests been done to see what would happen if 1 rotor/prop packed up, was shot off or just broke, could it land on one Rotor/prop under any sort of control or would it just fall and spear in?

Vfr

Big Delta area to overcome / Weight Displacement..and all the rest. God Bless the poor aircrew!
So the limit of Hover capability is limited to mountains........'bout as useful as T*ts on a Hog!!!!!!
They should concentrate on the Civil potential rather than the Mil!;)

This might be of interest, if it has not been previously mentioned.

It is an article by Gordon Leishman in the October 2007 issue of RUSI Defence Systems.

'Is there a case for the Tiltrotor'

Regardless of what sort of licence you require to fly it - does anybody have any idea/inside line on certification and future price, UK maintenance centres etc.
Personally, the 609 will be an excellent solution for our future needs and v interested in availability.
(have contacted BellAugusta but do not want to use up our supply of salt with listening to their 'sales' department)

Any hard facts would be appreciated from reliable sources
PM if appropriate

Rotordog,

One Hundred Million US Dollars is the cost of the "new and improved" Jeep that had to be greatly modified to fit into the Osprey. It tows a French Mortar on a trailer.....and takes twenty minutes to re-configure upon leaving the aircraft.:ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh: